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

A similar outreach campaign, combining compelling language and imagery, would better persuade people to choose coronavirus vaccination over the tenaciousness of hesitancy.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

Jaime was a combo guard known for his defensive tenaciousness and Angela a small forward who became an All-American mostly because of her all-out hustle.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2019

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

This is accompanied by a mechanical tenaciousness of whatever we possess, by a distrust and a sense of fallacious hollowness in all we see.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest