Example Sentences

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It’s not surprising that people are so zealously screening incoming calls.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The citrus industry adopted it early and zealously, taking to it like water, spraying it all over the ground until not one sign of non-citrus life remained.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Not bad for someone who started his week in Northern Ireland by saying professional golf was "not a fulfilling life" and questioned "the point" of zealously pursuing victories.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

Evidence abounds that as a whole southerners zealously love it, and it is ever-present in homes and restaurants throughout all the southern states.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2024

He zealously implemented the reforms requested by Stone that furthered his own desire to remake the bureau into a modern force.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann