SEDULOUS in a Sentence

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He now begs them to search with the most sedulous care, and should any of the same quality be left, to forward it to him at once.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEDULOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sedulous
 a.  diligent; hardworking; persevering and constant in effort or application
Classic Sentence:
1  She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
2  He now begs them to search with the most sedulous care, and should any of the same quality be left, to forward it to him at once.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
3  Immediately surrounding Mrs Musgrove were the little Harvilles, whom she was sedulously guarding from the tyranny of the two children from the Cottage, expressly arrived to amuse them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  We bought some biscuits and chocolate which we ate sedulously as we wandered through the squalid streets where the families of the fishermen live.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
5  He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  After weeks of patient and sedulous labor, we completed our detailed analysis of every published SAT examination.