Sample Sentences for
persistent
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    She was persistent in asking for help, even when everyone else gave up.
    persistent = continuing (despite difficulties)
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    The forecast is for persistent heavy rains.
    persistent = continuing over time
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    It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.  (source)
    persistent = continue through difficulties
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    A persistent whine, like the insects only more steady with an edge of a roar to it, was in his ears... A plane!  (source)
    persistent = continuing
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    As the service proceeded, the clergyman drew such pictures of the graces, the winning ways, and the rare promise of the lost lads that every soul there, thinking he recognized these pictures, felt a pang in remembering that he had persistently blinded himself to them always before, and had as persistently seen only faults and flaws in the poor boys.  (source)
    persistently = always (in a continuing manner)
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    The Prime Minister did not know what to say to this, but a persistent habit of wishing to appear well-informed on any subject that came up made him cast around for any details he could remember of their previous conversations.  (source)
    persistent = continuing
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    Then I would quietly but persistently punish myself.  (source)
    persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
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    One did not know what happened inside the Ministry of Love, but it was possible to guess: tortures, drugs, delicate instruments that registered your nervous reactions, gradual wearing-down by sleeplessness and solitude and persistent questioning.  (source)
    persistent = continuing
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    She plunged her nails into the side of his neck and gouged as he worked his way up the supple, full hills and ledges of her rounded body until he covered her completely and pressed her into submission, his fingers pursuing her thrashing arm persistently until they arrived at the wine bottle finally and wrenched it free.  (source)
    persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
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    I followed him over a low whitewashed railroad fence, and we walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg's persistent stare.  (source)
    persistent = continuous
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    The problems he'd warned of—and prioritized—over a decade earlier were persistently difficult to solve.†  (source)
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    There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food;  (source)
    persistent = continuing despite difficulties
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    The bug sprawled untidily on a mound of squashed letters and Tock, his alarm ringing persistently, was buried under a pile of words.†  (source)
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