Example sentences for: persistent

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

  • This very issue of this very magazine contains a piece by ace foreign correspondent Peter Maass (two "s"s) concerning his persistent experience of being confused with the author of The Valachi Papers and Serpico , writer Peter Maas (one "s").

  • In 1949 Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead narrowly escaped prosecution in this country because of its persistent use of the word “fugging.”

  • She was empirically treated with Polycitra™ for the persistent metabolic acidosis, but on-going FTT prompted reevaluation.

  • Patients with acute coronary syndromes without persistent ST-segment elevation were randomly assigned to placebo or eptifibatide.

  • He does not say as much expressly, but his characterization of such do-gooders as pedants (p. 215) and purists (p. 223), his persistent placing of quotation marks around words and phrases condemned by contemporary purists and pedants to signify—what?— their quaintness? their curiosity?


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