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painstakingly

[ UK /pˈe‍ɪnste‍ɪkɪŋli/ ]
[ US /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a fastidious and painstaking manner
    it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling

How To Use painstakingly In A Sentence

  • Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
  • The old painting was damaged in the flood and had to be painstakingly restored.
  • Concept albums explore the despair of failed relationships, painstakingly removing the instruments of de-humanization from the hard-hearted ex-girlfriend's toolbox and examining them one by one.
  • He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
  • Later in that same decade, he began developing the concept of sound on sound recording, first painstakingly overdubbing part after part on a 78 rpm record cutting machine, and then later on magnetic tape.
  • Divided into sections (the Americas, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe), it provides natural history images painstakingly rendered by artists over centuries, which depict new forms of flora and fauna that the European world was just discovering - from the banded krait (a snake) to the white-tailed gnu. 3 books for giving
  • The building has been painstakingly restored to all its former elegance.
  • So much for the truce, painstakingly pieced together by Bill Clinton and his unique brand of insomnia diplomacy.
  • All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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