How To Use Indefatigable In A Sentence

  • There was less to fear from the “indefatigable,” a young man just come out or an old beau who danced indiscriminately with any and all women, and the “indispensable,” the anxious fetcher and carrier of wraps, gloves, lemonade, fans and ices, but a young lady was introduced to as many approved and eligible men as quickly as possible. La Jeune fille à marier | Edwardian Promenade
  • She was indefatigable in her search for the truth.
  • However, the referee was unsighted and disallowed the score but the indefatigable Ainslie peeled off a maul two minutes later to touch down next to the posts for Mitchell to convert.
  • One can only salute such indefatigable souls, and wish them success in their efforts.
  • And it was a shining example of how history is really forged, not recorded, baptized in the indefatigable whirl of media spin.
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  • More than a few antiques dealers start out as indefatigable collectors who make the decision to turn their avocation into a vocation.
  • In "Blink of an Eye," Mr. Cohen spins a fantastical tale of a nuclear device that devastates Savannah, Ga., forcing a too-good-for-Washington president and his indefatigable aide to fight the forces of reaction—those knuckle-dragging American religious fanatics desperate to pin the attack on Iranian religious fanatics. The Tedium Is the Message
  • It was grumbled out in short spasmodic sentences between the slow whiffs of his pipe, as he sat by the fire in a little parlour off the hall, with his indefatigable daughter at work at a table near him. Fenton's Quest
  • An indefatigable advocate of equal rights; a tireless worker; unflagging pursuit of excellence.
  • A whistle-stop tour of the home of Renaissance painting, by gondola, vaporetto and on foot, with Sir Tim as our indefatigable guide.
  • Grand Turk, the square-rigged fighting frigate best known as HMS Indefatigable in the TV series Hornblower, returns to Whitby this month before being featured in a film on the life of Napoleon.
  • She has been indefatigable in helping us to counter a threat, which may have repercussions over a far wider area, than that occupied by this charming little cottage.
  • The numinous is a reliably elusive theme for a writer, and Burnside hunts it down like an indefatigable lepidopterist. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Irving and Ethel were two of a kind, indefatigable troupers who simply never wanted to get off stage.
  • For Montenegro–England on Sky, the indefatigable Shreeves was cast as sage nodder, and while Glenn Hoddle and Jamie Redknapp eschewed the chance to sit cross-legged on the studio floor – an idea for future Sky football shows, you can have that one on me – they were charged with making sense of a typically dysfunctional post-match conversation. Fabio Capello reveals his debt to Theatre of the Absurd | Martin Kelner
  • But it is questionable if many people know very much about him after all, or if the Fielding of legend -- the potwalloper of genius at whom we have smiled so often -- has many things in common with the Fielding of fact, the indefatigable student, the vigorous magistrate, the great and serious artist. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation
  • It was a time when his intellect, his indefatigable energy and courage were deployed to the full. Times, Sunday Times
  • Intelligent, courageous, dynamic, indefatigable and compassionate are the words that best describe young Tom.
  • He is known as a daring innovator in science, as an indefatigable researcher and as a great transformer of nature.
  • Neither is it in God’s esteem the diminution of His glory, when honorable things are spoken of good men and worthy magistrates; which if I now first should begin to do, after so fair a progress of your laudable deeds, and such a long obligement upon the whole realm to your indefatigable virtues, I might be justly reckoned among the tardiest, and the unwillingest of them that praise ye. Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing
  • He was a man of charm with an indefatigable determination and dedication to neurology. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has been an indefatigable defender of Epsom General Hospital.
  • That evening, we ate and relaxed around the fire - free of the indefatigable bugs and oppressive heat of the night before.
  • Miss Susan B. Anthony, a well-known, indefatigable, and lifelong advocate of temperance, anti-slavery, and woman's rights, has been, since 1851, Mrs. Stanton's intimate associate in reformatory labors. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
  • If Jean-Marc's sleeptalking continues, with his indefatigable "Chérie, tu ronfles -- Darling, you are snoring," we may have resort to what the Mise en bouteille / wine bottling
  • And it was a shining example of how history is really forged, not recorded, baptized in the indefatigable whirl of media spin.
  • He's indefatigable, like the sides he puts on the park.
  • The place was steeped in councilors, past and present, from the indefatigable bike fanatic Gordon Price to the bike-commuting Peter Ladner.
  • French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a letter to his Czech counterpart, called Havel "a man of culture and writer of great talent" who "incarnated an indefatigable commitment to democracy and freedom. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • His indefatigable spirit helped him to cope with his illness.
  • In estimating the energy of a social force, such as ecclesiasticism, the indirect are often more striking than the direct manifestations of power, and this is eminently true of Massachusetts; for, notwithstanding her ministers had always been astute and indefatigable politicians, their greatest triumphs were invariably won by some layman whose mind they had moulded and whom they put forward as their champion. The Emancipation of Massachusetts
  • He cultivated the mathematical sciences with indefatigable diligence, discovered many useful theorems, discussed with great accuracy the resistance of fluids, and, though his priority was not generally acknowledged, was the first who fully explained all the properties of the catenarian curve. The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV
  • NCR's indefatigable Rome correspondent, in that same Times story, agrees that the pope is responding to curial officials who sought to deflect attention away from the true nature of the crisis. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Sin Inside the Church
  • He was indefatigable in his industry and sense of curiosity.
  • He was a man of charm with an indefatigable determination and dedication to neurology. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has been indefatigable in helping us to counter a threat, which may have repercussions over a far wider area, than that occupied by this charming little cottage.
  • King's indefatigable efforts in the pursuit of a better world for future generations are to be applauded.
  • Walking to larboard, he tipped the bucket over watching the crab sail down the side of Indefatigable, back from whence it came.
  • What an indefatigable traveller after mythic Sangraal! Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
  • His indefatigable spirit helped him to cope with his illness.
  • Brilliant as he was indefatigable, he recreated the Zuni past from their syllables and potsherds.
  • At 73 June sings those lyrics with the same determined pluck as she did at 9, revealing an artist whose hopefulness proved as solid and indefatigable as her voice.
  • They are both small, tidy birds and indefatigable divers. Times, Sunday Times
  • WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (OneWorld. net) - Eighty-nine years after U.S. women finally won the right to vote, advocacy groups are pressing the Obama administration to promote women's equality worldwide and paying tribute to an "indefatigable" champion of women's rights, Senator Edward M. Kennedy. OneWorld.net (U.S.) - beyond your own borders
  • Mr. Hornblower, you are to gather your dunnage and return to Indefatigable.
  • But you get the feeling that the wizardly manchild is indefatigable.
  • They are both small, tidy birds and indefatigable divers. Times, Sunday Times
  • At midnight, under the light of a bright half-moon, Indefatigable was sailing smoothly into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France, on her way to Gibraltar.
  • But his strengths were indefatigable curiosity and imaginative sympathy with the natural world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Annie was an indefatigable campaigner for better community services.
  • It is relevant that Bishop was an indefatigable keeper of notebooks, a fact that implies approval of diaristic discourse.
  • He was an exquisitely talented painter and sculptor who worked for popes and kings, a contemporary and acquaintance of Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci; an incorrigibly opinionated boaster, duelist and brawler, an occasional jailbreaker (for that fast mouth of his got him in trouble more than once), and an indefatigable self-promoter and traveling PR show, with an ego the size of the planet. OMG, how did I miss this?! | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
  • More useful were sessions with Madame Mansouri, a physiotherapist, who was indefatigable in her attempts to get Kit to sit up unaided, to roll over and to crawl.
  • They are both small, tidy birds and indefatigable divers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Officers generally understand by the words "indefatigable," and The Authoritative Life of General William Booth
  • But Chou Enlai was much more than a brilliant, almost indefatigable ( tireless ), administrator.
  • I thought that, according to George Galloway, only certain Middle Eastern dictators could be termed indefatigable? Atlantic Review
  • But the indefatigable Swans, yellow labels flapping from their shoulder bags, would never dream of sitting anything out.
  • Polio may have deprived Kannan of his legs, but it has not deterred his indefatigable spirit and desire to achieve and inspire others as well.
  • In his first words to the press on Tuesday from the Florencia airport in Colombia, Moncayo thanked the "indefatigable" Senator Cordoba, Colombians for Peace, the Catholic Church, and the International Red Cross. New on venezuelanalysis.com
  • For a couple of hours there is hectic activity and on every side there are vigorous walkers and indefatigable joggers getting their morning exercise.
  • In the end, the natural-history collection earned the approval of some of America’s top scientists, including Silliman, who praised Wood’s thoroughness: “Mr. Wood was indefatigable for many months in completing the herpetology of China; the conchology is fully represented,” and there are “some remarkably fine carbonates of copper, both nodular and radiated.” The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
  • For a couple of hours there is hectic activity and on every side there are vigorous walkers and indefatigable joggers getting their morning exercise.
  • Brilliant as he was indefatigable, he recreated the Zuni past from their syllables and potsherds.
  • an indefatigable advocate of equal rights
  • What the band lacks in originality (not to mention coherence and subtlety), it more than makes up for with committed chops and indefatigable energy.
  • But he was just indefatigable when it came to his relationships with women.
  • The rain came down; there seemed to be only performers, booth owners, security officers and some indefatigable limers left.
  • A sleek master of gyrating, torpedoing, somersaulting "aquabatics," Mijbal becomes an indefatigable symbol of everything that is playful and self-delighting in the universe. Dispatches From the Natural World
  • Through his mother's contacts, he acted as if he were born to greatness, whereas in truth he had to achieve it by his own indefatigable efforts.
  • Promiscuously and indefatigable to pursue all sorts of pleasures I own to be brutish, and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish, let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper. Essays and Miscellanies
  • He is undoubtedly a ** sonorous dactylist'* — and to him I add Mr. Jenner, Proctor of the Commons, and Commissary of St. PauVs, who is a gentleman of indefatigable politeness in opening the Archives of a The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ...
  • The enemy ships made a clumsy tack northerly, not expecting to see Indefatigable in their path.
  • Larsen: If you're ADD and you still have a kind of indefatigable creative drive ... Printing: Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND
  • But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it; and, like Caesar, Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • It's a task that's knocked out some of the best, yet in the midst of all this journalistic Sturm und Drang, The Ferndale Enterprise has endured, publishing a hard copy edition every Thursday for the last 133 years and still going strong from its tiny wood-shingled office on Main Street in Ferndale, CA., courtesy most recently of the indefatigable Ms. Titus. Lorraine Devon Wilke: Women Of the News: Ferndale's Enterprising Editor, Caroline Titus
  • Later that evening, the indefatigable management team inducts the 200 new staff at the Teviot bar in preparation for this year's festival.
  • It was a time when his intellect, his indefatigable energy and courage were deployed to the full. Times, Sunday Times
  • Neither is it in God’s esteem the diminution of his glory, when honorable things are spoken of good men and worthy magistrates; which if I now first should begin to do, after so fair a progress of your laudable deeds, and such a long obligement upon the whole realm to your indefatigable virtues, I might be justly reckoned among the tardiest, and the unwillingest of them that praise ye. Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19
  • She was tacking to come around on Indefatigable's starboard side.
  • The culprit is Burson-Marsteller chief executive and oft-mocked Clintonista Mark Penn, who today writes that "Cleggmania" will soon be coming to these shores, with the same indefatigable certainty as other U.K. exports, like "Torchwood" and "knifecrime. UK Elections Inspire Witless Microtrends From Mark Penn
  • Encouraged by this discovery, Edmond determined to assist the indefatigable laborer.
  • Armstrong had long been known as an indefatigable spear-carrier for Harry Chandler, but at this moment he seemed unaware that the wind had shifted at Times headquarters. Colossus
  • They are indefatigable birds at this time of the year, singing by night as well as by day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like a restive monkey, it dangles from each vine of contemplation for hardly a millisecond and moves ahead with indefatigable enthusiasm.
  • Meanwhile, the body is fluid, strong and apparently indefatigable.
  • There was indeed a ship headed in the direction of Dolphin which was still on her southeasterly tack while Indefatigable was now headed northwest.
  • His indefatigable spirit helped him to cope with his illness.
  • But his strengths were indefatigable curiosity and imaginative sympathy with the natural world. Times, Sunday Times
  • That kind of instinctive, indefatigable willingness to engage is a gift, Mr Caen, as unteachable as it is unbuyable.
  • However, Titik, 34, is now enjoying the fruits of her persistence and indefatigable spirit.
  • Jim was an indefatigable gatherer of vegetable products, and one thing which attracted him immensely was the branch of a tree which bore a number of star-leaved clusters, each leaf being feather-veined, and the stems carried numerous yellowish purple-spotted flowers, and also nuts about the size of pigeon eggs. The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages
  • They are both small, tidy birds and indefatigable divers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their indefatigable references to women and eroticism, couched in vigorous and seductive language, speak to an awareness that references to women and sexuality enable homosocial bonds between male writers and readers.
  • There was still one battleship in service, the Vanguard, a turreted shape I can just remember seeing through a North Sea mist, but the biggest surprise was the number of aircraft carriers: Ark Royal, Eagle, Indomitable, Illustrious, Implacable, Indefatigable, Formidable … their bulldog names went on over two pages. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
  • They are indefatigable birds at this time of the year, singing by night as well as by day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Could he ever overshadow the 'indefatigable' moment with Saddam Hussein? Keep On Rockin' In The Trots World
  • The unparalleled rapidity with which he rode from Cape Town to Grahamstown, a distance of 600 miles, accomplishing it in less than six days; his indefatigable and most able exertion from the moment of his arrival to expel the savage enemy from the ground their unexpected and treacherous invasion had gained – to afford protection and support to the inhabitants; to restore confidence and to organize the armed population, and combine the resources of the country – have been beyond all praise, and justly entitle him to the grateful acknowledgments of the Colony and of the Commander-in-Chief. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.

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