How To Use Doggedly In A Sentence
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he pursued her doggedly
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The men plod, doggedly, with large unwieldy blackboards slung over their shoulders, but everywhere they look nobody is interested in reading and writing when living from day to day is such a concern.
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The scores seemed to follow a certain pattern as Wicklow persistently nosed ahead and Mayo doggedly pulled them back.
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When it became clear he needed to brace one hand around her ankle in order to wield the buttonhook, he did so doggedly.
The Lightkeeper
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When, at length, after much heartburning and conscientious scrupling, he was mastered by a healthier spirit of self-assertion, which made him rebel against the uselessness of the conflict, and doggedly resolve to put an end to it, he was only enabled to stand firm by summoning to his aid all the strengthening egoism, which is latent in every more or less artistic nature.
Maurice Guest
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We both shared old-fashioned views and stuck doggedly to them at all times.
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We must stick doggedly to this undertaking and not delay its fulfilment by a single day.
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So I determined to do all my financial transactions in the most doggedly literal and straightforward way possible.
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For years it has clung doggedly to established practices and conventions, some of which pass no scrutiny by modern society.
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His doggedly four-square phrasing was more jazz-schlock than jazz-rock.
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When I was a student of art history, I spent my days doggedly tracking down art objects, provenances and sources, historical and contemporary influences, stylistic affinities and social contexts, readings and interpretations.
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He sat to the last moment doggedly struggling to keep cool and to mount the ciliated funnel of an earthworm's nephridium.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
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I kept at it, doggedly and patiently until finally I could skate.
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So she went off to go doggedly through the full factual screening of Posi's data of Fraxilly.
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Sykes's battalion of regulars, which has been at our left, now steadily moves obliquely across the field of battle toward our right, to a hill in the midground, which it occupies, and, with the aid of Arnold's Battery and Palmer's Cavalry, holds, while the exhausted and disorganized troops of the Union Army doggedly and slowly retire toward
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3
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In Midland, where the sky arced over us in one enormous dome of blistering blue and where people doggedly imported acres of elm seedlings and chinaberry trees to plant the green ribbons of shade that lined their streets at the edge of the desert, we were quite literally an ocean and almost a continent removed.
Spoken from the Heart
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One morning, my swimming teacher (actually a rather bored history master who'd been drafted in to help out), who had been watching me doggedly ploughing along in this manner, unexpectedly creased up with helpless laughter.
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Not surprisingly, her creativity was at a low ebb, so she was doggedly blocking out basic shapes to use later.
DEATH IN FASHION
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The widow's small thickset neighbours, gathered in the plain, seemly room, are doggedly attentive as the priest, comically, explains the afterlife to a ghost.
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One of my more hopeless but doggedly-pursued ambitions is to collect every one of those words.
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Edison's method was to doggedly persist in searching for an answer to a problem, expressed in his memorable aphorism that invention is ‘ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.’
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There were some food items to be bought; she was persisting, doggedly, with the recipe book.
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He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
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These foibles include our urge to chase the latest investment fad and doggedly hanging on to losers.
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The other part of me was still doggedly determined that whatever it was that made Mary so different, so fragile, it was not my fault.
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This lack of sensitivity to the wellsprings of quality largely stems from shopworn but doggedly persistent ideas on where to economize.
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It sticks doggedly to its line through numerous fast circuits round large roundabouts.
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She gives a doggedly unsensational account of rampant, abusive teens in a company town fallen on hard times.
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In the UK this will most likely include your eyeballs too as you find yourself sucked inexorably into ITV4's coverage with poor old doggedly persevering Matt Smith, locked in his bankside broom cupboard with Robert Croft for the next 49 days and 73 matches.
IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 | Barney Ronay
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His doggedly four-square phrasing was more jazz-schlock than jazz-rock.
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Alexeivich used a paper napkin to dab at the perspiration rolling off his nose as he spoke, but he doggedly refused to remove his jacket or loosen his tie.
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I doggedly pedaled along but I was so not enjoying this little excursion.
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The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
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Mont Blanc is just 13 km from Les Droites, the peak on which Andrew doggedly clung to life for five days in sub-zero temperatures after becoming trapped in a storm.
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You have the qualification to be a top investigator or researcher as you doggedly dig out the facts of whatever matter you are pursuing.
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Stanley's poetry is always lush, frequently visionary, and sometimes sublime: It lights upon existential nanoseconds without affixing itself so doggedly to any one natural phenomenon that the presence and significance of the human is diminished a claim sometimes leveled against younger poets working in the New Minimalism, a kissing cousin of Slow Poetry.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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For years it has clung doggedly to established practices and conventions, some of which pass no scrutiny by modern society.
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He was still doggedly pursuing his studies.
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I'm doggedly refusing to make puns about the restaurant name.
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It's hard to square our usual image of Stevens as a doggedly conscientious master of surety and fidelity with this carefree frontiersman.
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So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time.
Great Expectations
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Wagner had climbed up the greasy pole doggedly, and methodically.
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An Gaeltacht came out of traps like a good greyhound, took the game doggedly and determinedly to the leaders, and had them reeling as they attempted to hold the Western champions at bay.
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Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time.
Great Expectations
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Although the men fought doggedly on, a sense of hopeless despair engulfed them.
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For years it has clung doggedly to established practices and conventions, some of which pass no scrutiny by modern society.
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He punched on, with his left hand only, and as he punched, doggedly, only half-conscious, as from a remote distance he heard murmurs of fear in the gangs, and one who said with shaking voice:
Chapter 15
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This slam-bang B-movie pastiche is wildly uneven as it doggedly strives (sometimes with obvious strain) to sustain a freewheeling, anything-goes air of exuberant junkiness," writes Joe Leydon.
Venice film festival opens with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
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The movie detective is an archetypal Western hero: stoic, logical, and doggedly determined.
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The press doggedly insists on telling us how many soldiers have died since May 1st.
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I'm doggedly refusing to make puns about the restaurant name.
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The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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To Limerick's eternal credit they battled bravely, determinedly, and doggedly to the very end.
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Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46
Agesilaus
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He sat to the last moment doggedly struggling to keep cool and to mount the ciliated funnel of an earthworm’s nephridium.
Love and Mr Lewisham
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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Week after week for more than three years The New Australian doggedly produced a stream of articles challenging the left on every intellectual level.
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Caleb augured the worst, turned a deaf ear to the trio aforesaid, and was moving doggedly on, his ancient castor pulled over his brows, and his eyes bent on the ground, as if to count the flinty pebbles with which the rude pathway was causewayed.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
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`There's nae call to be personal," MacHinery said doggedly.
THE LONELY SEA
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She would fight doggedly for her rights as the children's mother.
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French and Irish yawns are very similar, the only difference being, that whereas the Frenchman finishes the yawn resignedly, and springs to his legs, the Irishman finishes it with an energetic gasp, as if he were hurling it remonstratively into the face of Fate, turns round again and shuts his eyes doggedly -- a piece of bravado which he _knows_ is useless and of very short duration.
The Young Fur Traders
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It takes a special strength of character to spend decades doggedly pursuing a theory that attracts harsh opposition.
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There are many townies who do not survive such trials but there are also many who doggedly remain, and at last there are new magazines and organisations that offer support - and much needed advice.
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Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power.
'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
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Mont Blanc is just 13 km from Les Droites, the peak on which Andrew doggedly clung to life for five days in sub-zero temperatures after becoming trapped in a storm.
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I'm going to take the most extraordinary political event that has happened in Britain for however many years and I am going to doggedly interiorise it and depoliticise it with a certain type of limpid prose . . .
A life in writing: China Miéville
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The alternative is a culture in which only the truly, soaringly, doggedly boring can thrive.
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Like Mao before him, Deng doggedly clung to power, despite becoming less mentally sharp in his final years.
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She doggedly regained her footing and ran on, brown, dirty mud splattered in her long midnight blue hair.
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But she was also formidable; forthrightly and doggedly challenging what she regarded as slipshod thinking or careless expression.
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He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
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In other words, squeeze the life out of the game and see if they can sneak a goal and cling doggedly to the lead.