Example sentences for: painstakingly

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

  • Along with fortified wine, embroidery and lacemaking are Madeira’s superlative exports, and in Funchal you have ample opportunity to visit factories or workshops where the final touches are put to these painstakingly produced items.

  • His relationship with the renowned traveler had ended in some acrimony after just eight hours, during which time Sixpence had managed to consign the whole of her insect collection (painstakingly accumulated for the British Museum) to the bonfire which he had lit in the compound outside her chalet for the express purpose of burning the rubbish from within it.

  • Caves painstakingly cut into the mountainside contain colorful painted carvings, all the work of a single-minded Daoist monk of the 18th century and his followers.

  • The names themselves, along with precise locational data and identification by type, have been painstakingly keyboarded into machine-readable form from the most detailed USGS topographic maps, the so-called 7.5-minute series.

  • The most cherished treasure in the Santa Croce Museum is Cimabue’s 13th-century massive Crucifixion, rescued and painstakingly restored after the town’s catastrophic 1966 flood.


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