Sample sentences for TENACIOUS

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Definition

persistent and unyielding

tenacious = determined and persistent

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it
The cardinal has a tenacious memory and a long arm; you may depend upon it, he will repay you by some ill turn.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
But as he approached the land, a thought, at first fleeting and then tenacious, arose in his mind.
Verne, Jules -- Five Weeks in a Balloon
He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
You may keep this minority out of sight and out of mind, but it is tenacious of life, and is one of the estates of the realm.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series
Tenacious of power, he would keep Charles and the rest dependent, and retire from business reluctantly and at an advanced age.
Forster, E. M. -- Howards End
Thinking back now on the problems expressive language presented to me, I am amazed by ... their tenacity.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

tenacity = persistence

No doubt she looked a little insane, tenaciously clutching the paperweight.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

tenaciously = with unyielding persistence

Yet at the same time his dark eyes burned with a kind of inner fire that told of the tenacity with which he clung to life and of...
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen

tenacity = determination and persistence

tenacity = determination and persistence

tenacious = determined and persistent

Worthy of love and admiration were these people in their blind loyalty, their blind strength and tenacity.
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

tenacity = determination and persistence

tenacity = determination and persistence

We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

tenacious = determined and persistent

Usually they scare off easy, but this one, he's tenacious.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride

tenacious = determined and persistent

Agravaine returned tenaciously to the subject which they had been discussing.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

tenaciously = with unyielding persistence

In time, she discovered she had surprising hardihood and tenacity,
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

tenacity = determination and persistence

People are tenacious when it comes to the treasure of their imaginary independence.
William P. Young -- The Shack

tenacious = determined and persistent

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