All 5 Uses of
tenacious
in
Not Without My Daughter
- A large-boned, broad-shouldered woman, quite a bit older than Moody's forty-seven years, she held him in a tenacious embrace, throwing her arms over his shoulders, kicking her feet off the ground, and wrapping her legs around him as though she would never let him go.†
- She clung tenaciously to the hem of my coat.
*tenaciously = with unyielding persistence
- With one hand she clutched at me tenaciously as, with the other, she pushed her teacher away.†
- Dad was holding on to life tenaciously, waiting to see us.†
- We remounted the horse and I tried to cling more tenaciously to its mane as we moved on down the hill toward an unseen and unknown destination.†
Definition:
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(tenacious) persistent and unyielding