Keen In A Sentence

Definition of Keen

• Without exception they all lack the keen scent that helps the deer to elude its pursuers.
• Morning came unnoticed, except by those whom the keen cold permitted to sleep no longer.
• Black-game are as keen as red grouse on oats, and a few sheaves thrown about always attracts them.
• I felt a keen pang at these words, but was resolved at any cost to know more, to know everything.
• A single glance shot out of his eyes, so keen and suspicious that Keith was startled.
• Towards midnight the cold became so keen that I rose and went to the side of a flickering fire.
• The Sergeant was seen and found to be a keen young soldier, fully alive to the situation.
• In the mean time, the boys, whose keen eyes nothing can escape, came flocking from all parts.
• From the first Val showed a keen liking which Rowan was swift to foster for newspaper writing.
• The latter was a silent, self-reliant man with a keen eye, thin lips, and a dry, business manner.
• I do not argue, for, to tell the truth, shocking as it may be, I am not keen one way or the other.
• She was a patrician-looking creature and was standing quite alone, observing the scene with keen interest.
• The keen eye of the wolf was soon attracted by the white fleeces, with no shepherd near to guard them.
• There was nothing, as he sometimes observed, that flavoured life so deliciously as a keen appreciation of comedy.
• With a very little reasoning and comparing, it was found that from its position, the keen blast must have produced this effect.
• My long fasting and the mountain air and exercise had given me a keen appetite, and never did repast appear to me more excellent or picturesque.
• Beyond Gyantse there was no regular parcels post, so that of many articles we were feeling a keen want.
• Witches have red eyes and cannot see far, but they have keen scent, like animals, and can tell at once when a human being is near to them.
• When he had earned the fortune he had come to Australia to earn he meant to prove to the world how keen and true his artistic tastes were.
• The speaker was a wiry, active man of some forty years old, with a weatherbeaten face, and a keen gray eye.

• I was keen with anticipation.
• Ferdy gave him a keen glance.
• He was always very keen on the scent of a jest.
• He was then a keen student of the animal life around him.
• The old fellow turned his eyes on him with a keen look.
• A look of keen pleasure came into his shrewd face.
• I how keen and quick the look of her high-bred face!
• The rest was all close, keen examination of my problem.
• He believed himself to be endowed with a keen sense of the beautiful.
• It had not escaped his keen eye that she was grown old and lined!
• A keen glance from a pair of very bright eyes was shot at him.
• His eyes became blue again, and as keen as the blade of a knife.
• Grief, glancing with keen carelessness from one to the other, laughed.
• I was already a very keen theologian and politician before I was fifteen.
• Miss Abigail's keen intuition had discovered the flaw.
• He was a quiet-looking, stout man, with a gray moustache and keen dark eyes.
• I was watching her with keen interest, when I was summoned to dinner.
• He's awfully keen about your coming, Jo.
• It was a keen physical feeling, like nothing I had ever felt before.
• Boyce's keen senses picked up much as Lloyd discovered in his whisper.