Sample sentences for PERSEVERANCE

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Definition

continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties

Her perseverance was finally rewarded.

perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties

She is more notable for her perseverance than for her natural talent.

perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties

Stanley's father was smart and had a lot of perseverance.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

perseverance = a tendency to continue working to achieve something despite difficulties

. . . let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties

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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties

Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties

To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties

If a woman may ever be said to be in safety from the determined Perseverance of disagreeable Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers, surely it must be at such a time of Life.
Jane Austen -- Love and Friendship
He did not read always with enjoyment but invariably with perseverance.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
He said with prayer and perseverance, God might one day forgive me.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
They met in graduate school; he flitted from lab to lab with a prodigious curiosity but little perseverance.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
To speak of Tuskegee without paying special tribute to Booker T. Washington's genius and perseverance would be impossible.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Having taken it, I determined, as far as should depend upon me, to maintain it, with moderation, perseverance, and firmness.
George Washington -- Washington's Farewell Address
No doubt it would inspire her to give me the speech again about how, with time and perseverance, I could be a judge, too.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
It takes a lot of perseverance to hang tough with challenging choices.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
I was relieved from it by the humane hand of Mr. DAVID RUGGLES, whose vigilance, kindness, and perseverance, I shall never forget.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
A great deal of their money and perseverance and they found a place to sleep.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God
Tronjheim was a stunning monument to the dwarves' power and perseverance.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
You'll begin your lectures about perseverance and strength of will, and all that.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
Nothing can be achieved without perseverance.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

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