TENACIOUS in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for TENACIOUS, such as:
1. The baby took my finger in its tenacious little fist.
2. Her affections were not acute, nor was her mind tenacious.
3. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most tenacious by her obstinacy.
4. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
5. Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none of its honeyed firmness and softness.
2. Her affections were not acute, nor was her mind tenacious.
3. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most tenacious by her obstinacy.
4. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
5. Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none of its honeyed firmness and softness.
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Meanings and Examples of TENACIOUS
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tenacious
a. sticking together; stubbornly unyielding; holding together firmly
Classic Sentence:
1 Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of his cavalry would have been as solid as he.
2 Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious.
3 The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most tenacious by her obstinacy.
4 Her affections were not acute, nor was her mind tenacious.
5 He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Context Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
6 "That is a tenacious old grandfather," said Beauchamp.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
Context Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
7 While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression, I had burnt it in.
8 Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none of its honeyed firmness and softness.
9 And she deduced the essentials of his wishes quite correctly, and having once arrived at them clung to them tenaciously.
10 Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.
Example Sentence:
1 The insurgents holed up here remain tenacious, unleashing suicide bombers and planting lethal explosives that can blow anything off the road.
2 The baby took my finger in its tenacious little fist.