TENACIOUS in a Sentence

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And she deduced the essentials of his wishes quite correctly, and having once arrived at them clung to them tenaciously.

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 Meanings and Examples of TENACIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tenacious
 a.  sticking together; stubbornly unyielding; holding together firmly
Classic Sentence:
1  Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of his cavalry would have been as solid as he.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
2  Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
3  The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most tenacious by her obstinacy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
4  Her affections were not acute, nor was her mind tenacious.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
6  "That is a tenacious old grandfather," said Beauchamp.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
7  While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression, I had burnt it in.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none of its honeyed firmness and softness.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV
9  And she deduced the essentials of his wishes quite correctly, and having once arrived at them clung to them tenaciously.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
10  Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
Example Sentence:
1  The insurgents holed up here remain tenacious, unleashing suicide bombers and planting lethal explosives that can blow anything off the road.
2  The baby took my finger in its tenacious little fist.