PAINSTAKING in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of PAINSTAKING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
painstaking
 a.  extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
Classic Sentence:
1  Princess Mary well knew this painstaking expression of her father's.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
2  A painstaking police officer, considering the presence of a corpse in his excellency's courtyard unseemly, told the dragoons to take it away.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
3  You have dealt with the facts with cool, painstaking fidelity and left those naked and uncontradicted facts to speak for themselves.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In I
4  Each case is examined separately, the court is very painstaking.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
5  He recalled his labors on the Legal Code, and how painstakingly he had translated the articles of the Roman and French codes into Russian, and he felt ashamed of himself.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
6  Sonya read painstakingly in her high-pitched voice.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  The work had been done with painstaking attention to detail.
2  Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
3  The truth is, I didn't want to have to call any parents, so by outlining everything in painstaking detail in my newsletters, I could avoid it.
4  As the painstaking process of 39 individual post-mortem examinations begin, a Chinese newspaper said that the UK and Europe must accept responsibility for the deaths.
5  Every aspect of the original has been closely studied and painstakingly reconstructed.