Example sentences for: painstaking

How can you use “painstaking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Important," says the New York Times Book Review . "[B]rilliantly rendered," says the Weekly Standard . Praise goes to Lefkowitz's "painstaking" reporting.

  • Self, it's surprising to discover, is a painstaking realist.

  • It is music of painstaking care, and the box set, with its alternate takes (including 10 different takes and portions of "Springsville," from Ahead ) gives you an idea of how Davis managed to protect an inchoate, subconscious quality in his trumpet playing, session after session.

  • As a result of the painstaking centimeter-by-centimeter recovery of the fragmentary but still powerful traces of the “real Leonardo,” we can now see, for example, that Philip (third to the right) has an expression of acute grief rather than the simpering pathos left by “restorers” who presumed to improve on the original.

  • As part of the publication process, some authors deposit data into a database but, more often, it is extracted from the published literature and deposited into the databases by human curators, a painstaking process.


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