INDUSTRIOUS in a Sentence

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339 example sentences for INDUSTRIOUS, such as:
1. The Chinese are an industrious nation.
2. She was an industrious and willing worker.
3. We Chinese people are brave and industrious.
4. The agency was set up to police the nuclear power industry.
5. In every rank, great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of INDUSTRIOUS
industrious
 a.  working hard to promote an enterprise
 a.  characterized by hard work and perseverance
Classic Sentence: (129 in 9 pages)
1  I can be well recommended by all the neighbors, and I hope I can be industrious and patient, and teach myself while I teach others.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
2  The three young women, who appeared to be very industrious and comfortable, raised their heads to look at me, and then went on with their work.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
3  I want to have something to do with all those many hours when you are so industrious.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
4  For a man who conducts himself well,' repeated Mrs. Micawber, with her clearest business manner, 'and is industrious.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
5  His long holster and belt glistened and his silver spurs and scabbard gleamed, from the industrious polishing Uncle Peter had given them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  This connection with the well-fed and industrious stock of early New York revealed itself in the glacial neatness of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room and in the excellence of her cuisine.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
7  The day began to dawn as they entered the clearing which had been formed by those sagacious and industrious animals.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
8  The staid, sober, thinking and industrious ones of our number would employ themselves in making corn-brooms, mats, horse-collars, and baskets; and another class of us would spend the time in hunting opossums, hares, and coons.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  And the clergyman's wife was sorry for her and took her into service; and she was industrious and thoughtful.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE RED SHOES
10  Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
11  The first day she was very obedient and industrious, and exerted herself to please Mother Holle, for she thought of the gold she should get in return.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
12  With reference to commerce, the proclamation to industrious workmen and to peasants evoked no response.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
13  There were no industrious workmen, and the peasants caught the commissaries who ventured too far out of town with the proclamation and killed them.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
14  They naturally took comfort in each other's society and were much together, riding, walking, dancing, or dawdling, for at Nice no one can be very industrious during the gay season.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
15  My scholar has been left very poor, but he is hard-working and industrious.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
2  The ant is the most industrious animal, but it most be scanty of words.
3  A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
4  She was an industrious and willing worker.
5  We Chinese people are brave and industrious.
6  The Chinese are an industrious nation.
7  To be merely intelligent or industrious is not enough; only those with both succeed.
8  The industry remains in the doldrums, according to official figures out today.
9  The agency was set up to police the nuclear power industry.
10  In every rank, great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.
11  His book provides a critical analysis of the television industry in Britain.
12  It would appear that the legal profession is the nearest thing to a recession-proof industry.
13  The government has a hands-off approach to the industry.
14  If such materials became generally available to the optics industry the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous.
15  Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.