All 5 Uses of
persistent
in
Arrowsmith
- So they straggled through the Montana wheatland, whole duchies of wheat in one shining field, through the cattle-country and the sagebrush desert, and suddenly, staring at a persistent cloud, Martin realized that he beheld the mountains.†
Chpt 3
- The persistent yammer of a motor horn drew Martin to the window of the laboratory, a late afternoon in February.†
Chpt 9 *
- Persistent failure to collaborate with his colleagues, and such inability to understand practical affairs as makes it dangerous to let him conduct the important laboratories and classes with which we have entrusted him.†
Chpt 12
- Well, I'll tell you, Doctor: if it's a persistent case I usually give ammonium chlorid.†
Chpt 17
- He noted but one thing which disturbed him: a milker had a persistent sore throat.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(persistent) continuing -- especially despite difficulties or opposition