sedulous

Example Sentences

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Fancies about interplanetary travel may have their sedulous followers, but skepticism about Musk’s Martian fantasy have been mounting.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

The same refreshing sense of dorkiness that blew me straight back to eighth grade while watching it may be inseparable from the sedulous faithfulness to the text that makes this adaptation somewhat awkward.

From Slate • May 31, 2019

Crafting elegant parcels of tilled earth requires scrupulous alignment, each seed sedulous placement and tending.

From Time • Oct. 6, 2017

One of these emerging stars was the No. 1 seed at Citi: Dominic Thiem, a 23-year-old Austrian of steady, sedulous temperament and brutally hard groundstrokes.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval—and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman’s sedulous attention.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley