Sample Sentences for
assiduous
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    This is the weapon he has been seeking so assiduously since his return:  (source)
    assiduously = carefully and persistently
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    Behind his back the door opens: his breakfast is making its entrance. Assiduously he dips his pen. ... "Just set it on the table, will you?" he says, without turning.  (source)
    Assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
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    'I'm sorry for it, Miss Catherine,' was my response; and I proceeded assiduously with my occupation.  (source)
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    They were all too assiduously engaged to talk to us as we passed.  (source)
    assiduously = diligently (marked by care and persistent effort)
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    How maybe if she was assiduous she could free us both.  (source)
    assiduous = diligent (careful and persistent)
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    Hence his indignation, his fervour, his assiduousness, his laborious petitions and committees; and above all, his desire to believe her innocent.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan's studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously.  (source)
    assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
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    He had to bite his tongue to keep from telling him that he had been an assiduous participant in the annual competition that had eventually interested famous poets, not only in the rest of the country but in other nations of the Caribbean as well.†  (source)
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    Here, success was not an honor, nor privation a dishonor; the Lord assiduously threw up tests and kept score based solely on faith.  (source)
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    He scarcely ever spoke to her, and the assiduous attentions which he had been so sensible of himself were transferred for the rest of the day to Miss Lucas, whose civility in listening to him was a seasonable relief to them all, and especially to her friend.†  (source)
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    The man was toiling assiduously, bending conduits around a beam.  (source)
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    , with assiduous celerity.†  (source)
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    ...employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon.  (source)
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