Sample Sentences for

rigorous

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The scientist conducted a rigorous study to ensure the results were reliable.

Everything speaks of a hasty departure or a rigorous search or both.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

He said I'd been educated according to a rigorous program designed by my mother, who'd made sure I met all the requirements to graduate.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

There, a worker cut a strip off the edge, divided it into squares, and put each through a series of rigorous tests.  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

And it forced us to develop the logic and rigor that would lead to systematic investigations of reality, to science, art, music, mathematics.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

By itself, the regimen proposed here, when followed rigorously, can purify the foulest breath.  (source) Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate, 1992

She had not carried out her first intention of writing at once because on going back to the letter for Clare's address, she had come upon something which, in the rigour of her determination to maintain unbroken between them the wall that Clare herself had raised, she had forgotten, or not fully noted.†  (source) Nella Larsen, Passing, 1929

The speaker looked round upon the bystanders, now drawing closer to hear him, with his lips gathered tighter than ever in the rigorousness of his descriptive moderation.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878

We all submitted to a rigorous search.  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

The hot sun dried Sethe's dress, stiff, like rigor morris.†  (source) Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to bed, and many such details.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Yet I could easily recognise this class of transgressions by the anguish of mind which preceded, as well as by the rigour of the punishment which followed them; and I knew that what I had just done was in the same category as certain other sins for which I had been severely chastised, though infinitely more serious than they.†  (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune, 2011

Navy SEALs go through an incredibly rigorous qualification and training program.

Only one of us here today has ever undergone the rigorous training required of a Receiver.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

To hear him tell it, they were marble-lined palaces, an escape from the rigors of the newsroom.  (source) Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin', 1997

...the moose appeared in greater abundance, moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and less rigorous valleys.  (source) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

The county judges, none of whom believes this school capable of turning out anything but football players, will question you rigorously on your project.  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

While most other recruits—that's what they called us; we had to earn the title "marine" by completing the rigors of boot camp—received a letter every day or two, I sometimes received a half dozen each night.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

A negotiation was opened through the medium of the ambassador, Sam; and after much pacing to and fro, till, I think, the said Sam's calves must have ached with the exercise, permission was at last, with great difficulty, extorted from the rigorous Sibyl, for the three to wait upon her in a body.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: (1:13)  (source) The Bible, Exodus, 1611

He read rigorously for several days, caught a few small errors, and penciled in supporting facts, especially about his evolved musical tastes.  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

Immediately after collection, Maycomb Methodists sang what they called the Doxology in lieu of the minister praying over the collection plate to spare him the rigors involved in inventing yet another prayer, since by that time he had uttered three healthy invocations.  (source) Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, 2015

The teacher’s rigorous enforcement of classroom rules ensured a disciplined learning environment.

Indeed, at least two of the commercial expeditions on Everest in the spring of 1996 included Himalayan veterans who would be considered qualified by the most rigorous standards.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

The evidence shows that he had been exceptionally dedicated, and it is precisely that rigorous and unbending attitude of spirit—the concept of duty and obedience above all which dwells unshakably in the mind of every good soldier—that gives his memoirs a desolating convincingness.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

His stern measures as Director were given an odd legitimacy by his personal life, the rigor of his insistent celibacy.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

"Well," I said with as little expression as I could, "at least you have been spared the rigours of an amputation."†  (source) Esi Edugyan, Washington Black, 2018

Among other things, he was rigorously conventional and had quickly accommodated himself to McGraw-Hill's tidy, colorless and archconservative mold.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

the rigour of severest law  (source) William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1599

Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,  (source) William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, 1594

In college McCandless began emulating Tolstoy's asceticism and moral rigor to a degree that first astonished, and then alarmed, those who were close to him.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

She knew not how such an offence as hers might be classed by the laws of worldly politeness, to what a degree of unforgivingness it might with propriety lead, nor to what rigours of rudeness in return it might justly make her amenable.†  (source) Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1799