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    Use "persistent" in a sentence

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    persistent


    1. It wasn't quite as bad on this world as it had been at Sol, but they could still be persistent and aggressive and there were so many more of them


    2. Over a long period of a few years some share show a consistent growth, some show ups and downs around a mean value, some show a persistent fall in value and quite a few just vanish out of market or are quoted at a value which is not worth the cost of paper on which the share certificate is printed


    3. ’ My persistent daughter commented as she steers the empty buggy round a corner


    4. After what seemed like half an hour of slow, persistent tuning, “It is the weather


    5. It wouldn't budge at first but after a little persistent shouldering it gave way, opening onto the garden and the sunshine once again


    6.  Persistent cookies: A persistent cookie resides on the hard drive of the user and is retrieved


    7. ‘Did she tell you that Peter virtually sat on her doorstep for a year trying to persuade her to marry him? He is a persistent so-and-so, that brother of mine


    8. Those mail routers are persistent if nothing else


    9. relating to a number of accusations of very persistent stalking


    10. Recovery from coma or a persistent vegetative state is always a possibility

    11. Persistent Vegetative State


    12. Since the doctor abandoned the old family business, Alex and his brother have been doggedly persistent in their pursuit


    13. If there was only one word that described our blond friend, it had to be persistent


    14. Are you seriously trying to spoil the ending for yourself? For shame… In any case, here is where I shall answer the most persistent question asked about the book:


    15. Again I've been largely unsuccessful but I'm a persistent cuss so I'm going to keep trying it


    16. could be heard but for a quiet, persistent ‘cuck-oo, cuck-


    17. Being patient, persistent and consistent is the key to reaping the long-term


    18. Our planet in fact is not stationary and exclusively blessed by the Divine in contrast with all other galactic spheres—much to our unjustified belittlement of them and exaltation of ourselves! In reality, the Earth spins around like one of those toy tops and travels around like one of those toy train sets, methodically and faithfully circling that hot, glowing ball in the sky that comes and goes on a daily basis, flaring up like my allergies and hemorrhoids that are just as regular and persistent as that shining, brilliant star we call the sun


    19. Although it clashed with every fibre in his being and went against everything they’d been taught, he had to give the man credit for being persistent


    20. Behind that sometimes devious gaze, there was a persistent depth

    21. She only hoped that the flickering star above her head, her persistent spell of candlelight, would be enough


    22. And while he did not speak to the Breton much, he had been impressed with and inspired by his persistent contentment, even despite his present circumstances


    23. Maileena stood shocked by the man's persistent efforts to get to her


    24. Penelope turned to watch him leave, but returned her vengeful glare to Mercer as the other Breton merely threw his head back in very persistent snickering laughter


    25. What we experience does not explain the chaos of the universe or the persistent cruelty of humanity


    26. A persistent voice of doubt was telling Torbin he had lost her, the one person who understood – who’d got closer to understanding – than any of the others


    27. All she could hear was the thudding of her heart and the persistent nagging thought that had been with her ever since she heard the news of his


    28. But, he was persistent, coaching me along


    29. It had been persistent, stalking its prey patiently, knowing its time would come, not now but soon


    30. With no power to resist the invisible forces acting on her, Broshee could only give herself to the persistent entity

    31. The persistent flickers of electricity even then trying to sustain their contact, crackled about her head


    32. She left only reluctantly, steered away by George’s persistent pressure on her arm


    33. the neurosurgeon told us Sharon was in a persistent vegetative state


    34. Nonetheless, due to the Junta Vecinal’s opportune and determined pledge, under the leadership of Mayor María Concepción Crespo Marqués and her lieutenant Félix Barrio Fernández, and due, additionally, to the persistent and unselfish dedication of many of the local residents who contributed talent, time and treasure, the memorable Little Church was rebuilt


    35. Though overall what happened to Natives clearly was genocide, it was not persistent unceasing atrocities


    36. We proceeded to the Marist campus and residence and, in spite of the persistent drizzle, we were able to appreciate the luxuriant fields where we, students, used to do essential manual labor, such as pick fruit from trees


    37. What happened next is the subject of a persistent story


    38. (The POW-MIA claim is itself a persistent but untrue rumor


    39. evading a persistent fairy Prince, who popped up when least wanted


    40. dealing with Tony's persistent advances

    41. Persistent I thought


    42. Colling felt his face turning red at the major’s use of the word “boy,” and his persistent mispronunciation of his name, but gritted his teeth and replied, “Yessir


    43. He wondered how she would manage when they became painfully persistent


    44. She had awakened from out of the sleep of exhaustion, she felt weak, as if from a sickness, but the pain was too persistent


    45. “Well, the grazing commons and ocean reefs aren’t ‘expandable’ while governmental budgets are! As long as it is in the politicians’ interest, they can continue to pass as many funding bills as they wish, resulting in the persistent deficits that led to the Balanced Budget Amendment proposals


    46. “The point I’m trying to make is you’re a persistent bastard and you wouldn’t give up,” Andy said while he turned and looked at Nicole before telling her, waving his arms about him:


    47. She could be persistent, I thought


    48. ” But the Purveyor has, is, and always will be persistent as well as insistent that an ever more clearly perceived vision is placed within the questing grasp of Man


    49. Be persistent, act with motivation, because approximately 80% of the humanity are composed of excluded people that depend exclusively on your dedication and altruistic wish of solving your problem and indirectly of the other people


    50. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever













































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    Synonyms for "persistent"

    persistent relentless unrelenting haunting lasting dogged dour pertinacious tenacious unyielding constant continual continued repeated steady enduring immovable insistent indefatigable persevering

    "persistent" definitions

    never-ceasing


    continually recurring to the mind


    retained; not shed


    stubbornly unyielding