Sample Sentences for
assiduous
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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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    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)
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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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    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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    Here, success was not an honor, nor privation a dishonor; the Lord assiduously threw up tests and kept score based solely on faith.  (source)
    assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
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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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    He guarded his flock assiduously, researched every mission with complete thoroughness, gathered the intel, checked the maps, charts, photographs, all reconnaissance.  (source)
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    , with assiduous celerity.†  (source)
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    The man was toiling assiduously, bending conduits around a beam.  (source)
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    He wondered whether the sonnets might not have been inspired by Amanda's presence in the Trueba garden, where the Poet liked to sit at teatime and talk about songs of despair, during the period when he had been an assiduous visitor at the big house on the corner.†  (source)
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    Next noontide saw the admirable woman in her usual place in the wine-shop, knitting away assiduously.  (source)
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