KEEN in a Sentence

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231 example sentences for KEEN, such as:

1. Dogs have a keen sense of smell.
2. He looked at her with his keen blue eyes.
3. And poor Mellors, he was still less keen.
4. Connie was not keen on chains, but she said nothing.
5. He became a keen golfer after his retirement from politics.

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 Meanings and Examples of KEEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
keen
 a.  acute; incisive; sharp ; express grief verbally
Classic Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
1  He was a man of a practical turn of mind, keen in his dealings and skilful with his hands.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  The keen air of the mountains and the balsamic odour of the pine trees took the place of nurse and mother to the young girl.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
3  He had been as keen as any of them upon the business until this sudden incident had drawn his thoughts into another channel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
4  He concealed his fears from his daughter, however, and affected to make light of the whole matter, though she, with the keen eye of love, saw plainly that he was ill at ease.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  At the end of that time, however, his memory of his wrongs and his craving for revenge were quite as keen as on that memorable night when he had stood by John Ferrier's grave.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  My visitor, who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, set down the glass upon the table, and then turned and looked upon me with an air of scrutiny.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
7  Connie was not keen on chains, but she said nothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  She had not been so very keen on Michaelis; till he started it, she did not want him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  But Connie was not keen on going to London, and being steered into the smart world by Lady Bennerley.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  He looked at her with his keen blue eyes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  Her pointed keen animal breasts tipped and stirred as she moved.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
12  I'm not keen on their self-satisfied tenderness, and their sensuality.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  And poor Mellors, he was still less keen.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  Though these shaggy hills were apparently so solitary, several keen round eyes were always ready on such a wintry morning as this to converge upon a passer-by.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
15  She would see how his heart lay by keen observation of them all.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  He became a keen golfer after his retirement from politics.
17  James was keen to put some of the things he had learned into practice.
18  They are keen to get the negotiating process back on the rails.
19  To be quite truthful with you, I'm not very keen on this colour.
20  Dogs have a keen sense of smell.
21  While Russia has been keen to maintain its pipeline monopoly, the US has promoted routes which, as far as possible, are free from its rivals' control.
22  The best way to get Pakistan to cooperate is to find the reasons why it is so keen to retain influence in Afghanistan and try to meet its concerns.
23  China, for example, keen to dispel its unsavory image among tourists of having poor restroom facilities, is sending twenty delegates.
24  For me the reason to meditate is to clear my mind, as well as to become keen to intuition.
25  Sarah is very keen on athletics and can trot out the names of all the leading runners and their record times.
26  A wine taster must have a discriminating palate and a keen olfactory sense, for a good wine appeals both to the taste buds and to the nose.
27  The razor has a very keen edge and shouldn't be touched by children.
28  Some dangers are real and obvious; others are slow, insidious, frustrating hope, and causing keen disappointment.
29  Matz gained keen insight into horses as a three-time Olympian and a silver medalist in equestrian competition at the 1996 Summer Games.
30  China's earliest pawn shops were run by Buddhist monasteries; in recent decades monks are keen to attract visitors, paving roads to their temples and opening shops hawking spiritual tat.