Example sentences for: strenuously

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

  • 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.

  • You've argued strenuously that neither you nor Mr. Bennett released any information pertaining to grand jury proceedings.

  • 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."

  • Having successfully and rather strenuously dodged prosecution himself, Nixon had volunteered to walk into a courtroom and testify to help someone he believed had triggered his own downfall.

  • I haven't strenuously objected to my love's praise for people such as Tom DeLay and (I'm serious here) G. Gordon Liddy because of the terrific time we're having and the incredible sex we share.


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