Sample Sentences for
tenacious
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    It flashed across Dr. Armstrong's mind that an old man like the judge, was far more tenacious of life than a younger man would be.  (source)
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    My former wife admired your tenacity and your thoroughness, and she was not a fool.  (source)
    tenacity = determination and persistence
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    She clung tenaciously to the hem of my coat.  (source)
    tenaciously = with unyielding persistence
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    I keep putting him off, but man, he's tenacious.  (source)
    tenacious = determined and persistent
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    In time, she discovered she had surprising hardihood and tenacity,  (source)
    tenacity = determination and persistence
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    Kenji weighs the matter, then tosses the stick, with the insect still clinging tenaciously, into the stream.  (source)
    tenaciously = with unyielding persistence (refusing to let go)
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    And for all her trying, she couldn't be free of that dull, indefinite misery which with increasing tenaciousness had laid hold of her.†  (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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    She first tried to kill them with a broom, then with insecticides, and finally with lye, but the next day they were back in the same place, still passing by, tenacious and invincible.  (source)
    tenacious = determined and persistent
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    Emmett brought his strength, Rosalie her… tenacity.  (source)
    tenacity = determination and persistence
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    ...who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom.  (source)
    tenaciously = with unyielding persistence
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    On the other side stood those like John Witherspoon and young James Madison of Virginia, who trusted the French and believed French friendship and support of such critical importance that nothing should be allowed to put the alliance at risk, and who had little faith in John Adams's "stiffness and tenaciousness of temper," as Witherspoon said in his clipped Scottish way.†  (source)
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    Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers.  (source)
    tenacious = determined and persistent
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    So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas's hand with such tenacity, we can understand why:  (source)
    tenacity = determination and persistence
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