RELENTLESS in a Sentence

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The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever - there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt.

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 Meanings and Examples of RELENTLESS
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relentless
 a.  unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to distresses of others; unyielding
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  His pen paused on the word, which brought home to him the relentless conditions of his lot.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  There were things in the fog reaching out fingers to pluck at her skirt, to drag her down into the uneasy quaking earth on which she stood, silent, relentless, spectral hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  But close on this happy thought came relentless knowledge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  Over them, relentless and savage, there cracked the lash of want; the morning after the wedding it sought them as they slept, and drove them out before daybreak to work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  In short, it was a scene of wildness and desolation; and it appeared as if all who had profanely entered it had been stricken, at a blow, by the relentless arm of death.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
6  Turning a relentless look on his enemy, he shook a hand in grim defiance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
7  Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  The tall soldier faced about as upon relentless pursuers.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  He had a wild hate for the relentless foe.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  The exception indicated the ever relentless vigour with which society frowned upon her sin.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
12  Fear, that relentless pursuer, clogged Dantes' efforts.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
13  Those eyes expressed entreaty, shame at having to ask, fear of a refusal, and readiness for relentless hatred in case of such refusal.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
14  All assemble in whom hatred of the tyrant was relentless or fear keen; they seize on ships that chanced to lie ready, and load them with the gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
15  This advice, therefore, and its consummation had the effect of rendering these mutineers relentless and inveterate in their hostility to the Carthaginians.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXII.
Example Sentence:
1  Improvements to our education system will require relentless and vocal outcry from the parents whose children suffer most from the current schools.
2  The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever - there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt.
3  The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever -- there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.
4  President Bush said the attacks will be sustained, comprehensive and relentless.
5  There is a sizable portion of the population that is also turned off in general by “Christmas creep,” the relentless expansion of the most promotion-heavy, consumerism-crazed of seasons.
6  We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity.
7  Working with the most shoestring of shoestring budgets and relying heavily on volunteer support, she has been a relentless campaigner to make the month-long event a success.
8  The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
9  The babysitter is surrounded by a crowd of unmanageable brats who relentlessly beleaguer her.
10  The guy was about forty, Reacher guessed, and furthermore Reacher guessed he had gotten to be about forty by staying relentlessly aware of everything.
11  The African sun beat relentlessly down on his aching head.
12  After the court case Lee was hounded relentlessly by the press.