Example sentences for: strenuously

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

  • "Through his songs, even Elvis Presley has left behind an infinite number of memorable words, and 20 years after his death, his fans are battling strenuously to save from the bulldozers the theater in which he last performed."

  • Rootless and lonely, Toru Okada plods across his strenuously postmodern space.

  • All teachers' organizations here, most notably the American Federation of Teachers and the California Teachers Association, campaigned strenuously and successfully against the proposed ban, which was sought by assorted prurient-minded prudes and obscurantist political zealots only.

  • The hero, Peter (Ron Livingston), an engineer at a generic software company, is suffocating under his boss, Lunbergh (Gary Cole), a dictator who punishes underlings from behind a strenuously mellow affect--each demand or rebuke prefaced by a seemingly upbeat "Yyyyeah."

  • The Rhode Island native made his debut in 1994 with a mannered, Mean Streets -style, Italian-guys-from-the-neighborhood picture called Federal Hill and followed that with a strenuously boring adaptation of David Mamet's American Buffalo (1996).


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