persistent

in a sentence

It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

A persistent whine, like the insects only more steady with an edge of a roar to it, was in his ears... A plane!  (source) Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, 1987

"My mouse dance taught me that a mouse is persistent and bold," he said.  (source) Ben Mikaeslen, Touching Spirit Bear, 2001

It was as though a flame had been lit inside him that nothing, not Hermione's flat disbelief nor Ron's persistent doubts, could extinguish.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

Then I would quietly but persistently punish myself.  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

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) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

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) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

They alone were deaf to that persistent voice ... admonishing them, if they would be good and win, as I suppose, some shiny prize, to keep within certain limits which the gentleman in question thinks suitable—  (source) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1928

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) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876

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) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

The problems he'd warned of—and prioritized—over a decade earlier were persistently difficult to solve.†  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

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) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

Unfortunately, maternal health is persistently diminished as a "women's issue.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009