Example sentences for: tenacious

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

  • But the tenacious Papandréou was re-elected in 1994.

  • An Ainu farmer speaks for the strange, tenacious hold of one's mother tongue: It's true the language is almost lost, but there's a lot of spirit still, so I don't think it's too late.

  • Many crimes are invariably referred to by initials, some of which belong to offences that have been super-seded--a good example of jargon's proving more tenacious of life than the things from which it arises.

  • It half-works right up to the point where people start getting gassed, and then Benigni's moist-eyed heroism and tenacious faith in his own irresistibility start to seem like a monstrous ego trip--a clown's megalomania.

  • However, the Egyptians are tenacious shopkeepers and you will have to have a will of steel and sense of humor to ignore their sales pitches.


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