tenaciousness

Example Sentences

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“That hasn’t changed. I’ll try to use my speed and tenaciousness and bring my work ethic. Try to get around the net.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024

“His energy and his tenaciousness was really the difference.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

As his team scraped its way to one taut victory after another, prevailing through grit and tenaciousness, coach Mick Cronin said it was no juggernaut.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2021

You sense Lucia’s tenaciousness coursing through Ms. Yende’s performance of the mad scene on her latest Sony recording, “Dreams”; even in the character’s delirium there is a chilling directness, even defiance, to her singing.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2018

He had seized my name in a moment and held it for three seconds with all the tenaciousness of a Hohenzollern.

From Further Foolishness by Leacock, Stephen