tenaciousness

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

That boost in perimeter shooting, combined with LSU’s usual tenaciousness around the basket on both ends, helped LSU become the first team this season to score more than 73 points against Tennessee.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2022

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

The tenaciousness of flowers is not known; their hardihood is not sufficiently admired.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 by Various