Sample Sentences for
perseverance
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    . . . let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  (source)
    perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
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    I suggested to his friends and family that Walter's strength, resistance, and perseverance were a triumph worth celebrating, an accomplishment to be remembered.  (source)
    perseverance = tendency to continue working to achieve something despite difficulties
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    Though this story was a favorite of the Grand Duke's and often retold to the young Count as an example of courageous perseverance in the face of impossible odds, the Count had always suspected it was a little apocryphal.  (source)
    perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
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    Nothing can be achieved without perseverance.  (source)
    perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
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    Right, but really, I mean aside from us obviously, cancer kids are not statistically more likely to be awesome or compassionate or perseverant or whatever.  (source)
    perseverant = with a tendency to continue effort despite difficulties
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    'Well, you'll need to demonstrate the ability to react well to pressure and so forth,' said Professor McGonagall, 'perseverance and dedication, because Auror training takes a further three years, not to mention very high skills in practical Defence.  (source)
    perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
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    Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance.  (source)
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    The wall-paper, as I said before, is torn off in spots, and it sticketh closer than a brother—they must have had perseverance as well as hatred.  (source)
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    They're a symbol of strength and perseverance.†  (source)
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    They met in graduate school; he flitted from lab to lab with a prodigious curiosity but little perseverance.†  (source)
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    Write your name and address and write me a paragraph explaining why you came here for this job and how you propose to rise in the ranks of Eason and Son, Ltd., by dint of perseverance and assiduity where there is great opportunity in this company for a boy that will keep his eye on the guidon ahead and guard his flanks from the siren call of sin.†  (source)
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    And one summer he took up the French horn, which he'd had a few lessons in during elementary school, and he showed more perseverance than the family had ever seen in him.†  (source)
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    CONSIDER IT PURE JOY, MY BROTHERS, WHENEVER YOU FACE TRIALS OF MANY KINDS, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH DEVELOPS PERSEVERANCE.—JAMES 1:2-3†  (source)
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