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Example sentences for "passionate"

Lexicographically close words:
passingly; passings; passio; passion; passional; passionately; passionateness; passione; passioned; passionis
  1. I feel her hand upon my arm, I see her eyes shine through the mist; Her life was passionate and warm As the red jewels at her wrist.

  2. Had you one passionate touch Of Nature there had been rain.

  3. Mr. Glanville gazed on her with a passionate tenderness, Sir George with admiration, and the old baronet with wonder and delight.

  4. I accompanied these words, madam, pursued Sir George, with so passionate a look and accent, that the fair Sydimiris blushed, and for a moment cast down her eyes with a visible confusion.

  5. They were now so near the house, that Sir George could reply no other ways than by a very passionate glance, which Arabella did not observe, being in haste to pay her respects to her uncle, whom she met just going to Mr. Glanville.

  6. Though reputed to be haughty and capricious, she entertained for Theodora an even passionate friendship, and now visited England only to see her.

  7. How long he had been absorbed in this passionate reverie he knew not but when he looked up again it was night, and the moon had touched his window.

  8. They were the diapason of all the thought and feeling of that profound and passionate spirit.

  9. She had grown so used to seeing him calm, imperturbable, smiling cheerfully no matter what she said or did, that his passionate outbreak amazed her.

  10. Cecil," called Hester, in a passionate and eager voice, as Miss Temple was passing her place.

  11. They were filled with passionate hatred of the horses, of the chaise, and of the human beings, and seemed ready to tear them into pieces.

  12. If old Aunt Maria could so wake in him the love of life and the hatred of that living death to which he had been condemned, what passionate will to live would rise in answer to the world's wonder and his wife's?

  13. And she fell to wishing that the seat at Henstead was not shaky; so much hung on it, her hopes for him as well as his own hopes, her passionate interest in him as well as his ambition.

  14. Normally he would have wanted to live as much as any man, even though in his more passionate moments he had said that life without Laure d'Aumenier held nothing for him.

  15. Her voice rose almost to a scream in mad and passionate protest.

  16. In the ruined villages and farms they came across many dead bodies of old women, old men and children, with here and there a younger woman whose awful fate filled the old soldier and the young alike with grim and passionate rage.

  17. The whole occurrence was a striking proof of the passionate pride that is latent in the Greek character in any matter that affects its reputation and self-esteem.

  18. From his childhood everything mysterious had a fascination for him, and he was possessed with a passionate admiration for the heroes of the Iliad.

  19. And then he told her the story, winding up by a passionate appeal that she would come.

  20. She shrank from it; she dreaded the thought of seeing him again, of listening to his just and passionate reproaches; she dreaded also the possibility that she might once again have to give up Diana's secret.

  21. Was it that once again he was beginning to fall in love with Daisy in the old passionate way?

  22. Yet when at last he rose he asked himself, with a sudden passionate eagerness, whether after all it might not have been a terrible dream.

  23. The passionate effort of one night of misery had brought him out for ever from amongst the purgatory of the unrecognised.

  24. It was a sweet and passionate story which leaped out from the lips of those fashionably dressed but earnest men and women, grandly human, exquisitely told.

  25. He felt that it would be very pleasant to take her into his arms, to forget, with her little hands in his, those days of madness when he had yielded himself up to wild and passionate dreams of things impossible.

  26. He stood before the window and cried out a passionate prayer--to what God he scarcely knew--yet it soothed him.

  27. I feel that I want to cast off the strange passionate love for the place which holds me here, to go out into the world and hold my place amongst my fellows.

  28. She looked at him with eyes a trifle dim, and Douglas felt his heart beat thickly, and the memory of Rice's passionate words seemed suddenly weak.

  29. For there were in Joan Strong, daughter of many generations of north country yeomen, the possibilities of tragedy, a leaven of that passionate resistless force, which when once kindled is no more to be governed than the winds.

  30. He forgot his garret, Cicely, the drear past, the passionate warnings of Drexley and Rice.

  31. This was the first fruit of his brain, this passionate rending aside of the curtain, which hung like a shroud before the grim horrors of that seething lower world of misery.

  32. Surely he could never make that wild passionate woman his wife.

  33. The ladies are working like slaves to succor our wounded and you go on like a passionate child because, busy as they are, they are obliged to adhere to their regulations.

  34. What has happened, Minette," he asked, as she laid her head down on his breast and burst into another fit of passionate sobbing.

  35. Throughout all this, the young Marquis remains unblemished, his proposal of a clandestine marriage and his excessive jealousy simply indicating his passionate love, not his moral turpitude.

  36. He felt a passionate disgust towards himself and Jeanne and Walters.

  37. He had thought of himself as a passionate person, but never in his life had he wanted to kill a man.

  38. Then he burst out in a low, passionate voice: "Oh, if I could only get it out of my mind.

  39. The Constitution is to-day, not a ruined Parthenon, but rather as one of those Gothic masterpieces, against which the storms of passionate strife have beaten in vain.

  40. The debates proceeded, however, in better temper, and almost the only question that again gave rise to passionate argument was that of slavery.

  41. The Constitution was the reflex action of two opposing tendencies, the one the imperative need of an efficient central government, and the other the passionate attachment to local self-rule.

  42. You are not like him,” he assured Ramon with passionate earnestness.

  43. Moreover, Ramon was now caught in the inevitable reaction from a purpose which had gathered and concentrated his energies with passionate intensity for almost four months.

  44. A note of passionate pleading crept into his voice.

  45. Had it not been for her widow's mourning, he would have said that she was untouched by passionate experience.

  46. Her lips were passionate and always a little parted, revealing a line of perfect whiteness like a streak of snow between the curling edges of two rose-petals.

  47. She met his eyes with passionate adoration.

  48. The passionate eloquence of Santa's gestures thrilled as much as it shocked Hindwood; it made her appearance of lavish modernity seem a disguise.

  49. To fill such a part no one was better adapted than the advocate Gambetta, who emulated the career of the leaders of the Revolution, and whose soul glowed with a passionate ardor of patriotism.

  50. The old feeling of distrust and jealousy had given place to a passionate attachment.

  51. The Jews, however, no matter how passionate and enraged, would have feared to incur the guilt of murder had they acted in this rough-and-ready method.

  52. Men like Stephen and the martyrs of Vienne and Lyons lived in the other world; it was the world of all their interests, of all their passionate desires, of all their sense of realities.

  53. Pressing her to his bosom, he renewed his passionate protestations.

  54. I will hear nothing more," interrupted Luke, and the vaulted chamber rang with his passionate lamentations.

  55. Sybil, with a passionate outburst of grief.

  56. As she spoke, Sybil burst into a flood of passionate tears.

  57. She then renewed all her arguments; had recourse to passionate supplications--to violent threats, but without effect.

  58. I gazed at Mrs. Mowbray, considering whether I had not misconstrued her speech--whether I had not so shaped the sounds as to suit my own quick and passionate conceptions.

  59. We have sweetness without strength, and strength without gentleness, and truth spoken without love, and words of passionate zeal without accuracy and heedfulness.

  60. Without this sentiment, we can only wonder at the passionate gratitude with which he receives the atonement and measures by its completeness the riches of God's grace.

  61. With St Paul's passionate ardour, the ceaseless craving of his mind to "know Him," these complacent believers have no sympathy whatever.

  62. Wrath and anger are synonymous, the former being the passionate outburst of resentment in rage, the latter the settled indignation of the aggrieved soul: this passion was put under restraint already in verses 26, 27.

  63. Then Patrick in passionate grief bewails the fate of the captives.

  64. Maurice; he was a much more passionate reformer than Tennyson; he was far more genial and social than Carlyle.

  65. The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd,"--Sir Walter Raleigh.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passionate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; ablaze; afire; amatory; amorous; animated; ardent; attracted; blazing; boiling; breathless; burning; combustible; committed; concerned; cordial; curious; dedicated; delirious; desirous; devoted; devout; drunk; eager; earnest; ejaculatory; eloquent; emotional; emphatic; enthusiastic; erotic; excited; exciting; explosive; exuberant; faithful; fanatical; fascinated; febrile; fervent; fervid; feverish; fierce; fiery; fire; flaming; flushed; furious; glowing; goatish; great; hasty; heartfelt; hearty; heated; hectic; horny; hot; hotheaded; impassioned; impetuous; inflamed; inflammatory; intense; intent; interested; intoxicated; itching; keen; lascivious; libidinous; lively; loving; loyal; lustful; mad; madcap; obsessive; overheated; passionate; peppery; perfervid; piqued; provoking; prurient; quick; resolute; romantic; salacious; scorching; seething; sentimental; serious; sexual; sexy; sincere; spirited; spunky; steaming; steamy; stimulating; stirring; stormy; strong; sultry; tempestuous; tender; tickled; torrid; towering; unrestrained; unsatisfied; urgent; vehement; vigorous; violent; volcanic; voracious; warm; wholehearted; wild; zealous


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    passionate love; passionately fond