DOGGED in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for DOGGED, such as:
1. It is dogged does it.
2. A good dog deserves a good bone.
3. The agency was dogged by complaints.
4. Beware of a silent dog and still water.
5. The dog led the blind man across the road.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DOGGED
dogged
 a.  stubbornly unyielding
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If she climbed down from the buggy, he climbed after her and dogged her footsteps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  She turned from the thought with a little shiver, but it hung on her all the way to the station, and dogged her down the platform with the persistency of Mr. Rosedale himself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
3  He continued to stand before her, in his dogged weakness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
4  Carol was touched by his efforts to enjoy picture galleries, and the dogged way in which he accumulated dates and dimensions when they followed monkish guides through missions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  The guns, stolid and undaunted, spoke with dogged valor.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  In a dogged way he repelled them, signing to them to go on and leave him alone.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
7  The noise of firing dogged their footsteps.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  "I didn't tell you anything," said Cassy, with dogged sullenness.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  At this moment, Legree sauntered up to the door of the shed, looked in, with a dogged air of affected carelessness, and turned away.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  Looking through the window I could see her walking feebly along the other side, while her pursuer dogged her some little distance behind.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
11  His good-humoured selfishness, his dogged sort of independence, his unrepenting sensuality, it seemed to Connie she could see them all in his well-knit straight thighs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black-visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  But it was easy to die like a Turk, by a dogged decline.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
14  Perhaps this is not the only time you have dogged my steps.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
15  I have ample evidence that you are being dogged in London, and amid the millions of this great city it is difficult to discover who these people are or what their object can be.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The agency was dogged by complaints.
2  Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
3  It is dogged does it.
4  The only way to improve is through hard work and dogged perseverance.
5  There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle.
6  Polite and open—even in the face of dogged criticism like the pans his Terminator re-quel has been collecting—he revealed that he didn't come to truly appreciate James Cameron's landmark sci-fier until he got the call to direct Genisys.
7  Armstrong's once-impressive career is now forever tainted with the stigma of having been achieved by means other than skill, hard work and dogged determination.
8  Les Miserables tells of Inspector Javert's long, dogged pursuit of the criminal Jean Valjean.
9  He was still doggedly pursuing his studies.
10  Beware of a silent dog and still water.
11  A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
12  A good dog deserves a good bone.
13  A dog darted across the road in front of me.
14  The dog led the blind man across the road.
15  If you add the plural inflection '-s' to 'dog' you get 'dogs'.