Sample Sentences forindustrious (editor-reviewed)
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She is likely to succeed in the job because she is smart, friendly, and industrious.industrious = habitually works hard
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The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. (source)industrious = hardworking people
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She is the most industrious of all Tashi's father's widows, and her fields are praised for their cleanliness, productivity and general attractiveness. (source)industrious = hardworking
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Grubs, Explorers, and the industrious Pioneers.† (source)
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I do know that the industrious bees do the most of it.† (source)
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Every farmer remembers what an unusually sober and industrious young man he was himself.† (source)
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They were inept at first but industrious.† (source)
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I stared at her, holding the pot in one hand and washcloth in the other, but she returned her attention to the sink, scrubbing industriously.† (source)
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One of our neighbors was a lifetime welfare recipient, but in between asking my grandmother to borrow her car or offering to trade food stamps for cash at a premium, she'd blather on about the importance of industriousness.† (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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Wasn't I the industrious stupid one who always worked?† (source)
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Columns of ants had found a pile of meatless chicken bones at my feet and were industriously carting away the crumbling marrow.† (source)
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After he left us at the door, we followed the Polish landlord, Mr. Kaminski, down the tiled hallway and up the stairs, struggling in the heat and the dark with our bags while he lectured us on the virtues of cleanliness and civility and industriousness, all of which he clearly suspected we lacked.† (source)
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Quite industrious, don't you think?† (source)
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'Mortar!' he would bellow, the word echoing over the site, and I would snatch up the first bucket that came to hand, or a brick trowel, and pretend to be working industriously.† (source)
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And my mother's education was the product of the riots of 1937 and the industriousness of Mr. Chance.† (source)
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The next morning I slept late, considering the on-and-off night I'd had, plus I'd been falling into lazy habits without the honey house to keep me industrious.† (source)
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