tenaciousness

Example Sentences

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“He stayed on our radar, not because of his tenaciousness, and just because of his performance. There are a lot of drivers that deserve rides at the top level of the sport in any series.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023

“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 tried to free himself of that thought, but it clung to him with a tenaciousness that oppressed him with a grim and ugly foreboding.

From The Golden Snare by Curwood, James Oliver