industrious

How To Use industrious In A Sentence

• Carolina in 1760, wrote in his _History of North Carolina_ that the women were the more industrious sex in this section, and made a great deal of cloth of their own cotton, wool, and flax. Woman's Life in Colonial Days
• Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed. Archive 2004-07-18
• It shows that young people are industrious and inspired. Times, Sunday Times
• Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• It shows that young people are industrious and inspired. Times, Sunday Times
• The usually industrious midfielder was virtually anonymous throughout. The Sun
• It is not enough to be industrious, the ants are very industrious. You are what?
• Yet he exhorted the true “naturalist” not to “let the search or knowledge of final causes make him neglect the industrious indagation [i.e., investigation] of effi - cients,” and he implied that the naturalist's principal aim was the discovery of efficient causes. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Rose was industriously weeding among the ranunculi. In the Presence of the Enemy
• The road is strait and spacious and kept in excellent repair by the industrious inhabitants, and is generally bordered by tall and spreading trees as the magnolia, liquid amber, liriodendron, catalpa and live oak, and on the verges of the canals where the road was causewayed, stood the cyprus, lacianthus and magnolia, all planted by nature and left standing by the virtuous inhabitants, to shade the road and perfume the sultry air. Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address Before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860