Thesaurus / doggedness

doggedness

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

The sinister look in the eyes, the doggedness of the face did not change.

He was sober; he was dependable; and he was dogged with the doggedness of the unimaginative.

THE SHADOWARTHUR STRINGER

Long afterward, Archibald Archer often recalled the patience and doggedness which Tom displayed that night.

The following story illustrates the doggedness of the Russian soldier.

This anger too made him speak with such a threatening tone to Fulbert, as to rouse the doggedness of the boy's nature.

They were studying hard; even Phil had settled down to text and notebooks with a doggedness not to be expected of her.

ANNE OF THE ISLANDLUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

“Teacher sent me on an errand,” he replied then, with a kind of doggedness.

THE DEBTORMARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN

He is a very fine example of the perseverance, doggedness, and tenacity which characterises the Anglo-Saxon spirit.

But the doggedness which had hitherto been Broffin's best bid for genius in his profession asserted itself as a ruling passion.

THE PRICEFRANCIS LYNDE

It would require a memory of iron and of more than stubborn doggedness to resist the unobtrusive influence of supposed prophecies.

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