persist

How To Use persist In A Sentence

• Simply inserting the word "conservation" in the pesticide label and slightly watering down the percentage of the active ingredient, brodifacoum, does not make this rodenticide safe for wildlife, nor will it make it any less persistent. Maggie Sergio: The Proposal to Poison a Wildlife Refuge
• The imbalance in the number of girls and boys of marriageable age is not the only cause of these social changes, and it will not persist for long.
• On the tops of some mountains snow persists throughout the year.
• These new forces have synchronized with the conscious policy of a certain sector of Canadian opinion which has persistently sought to detach us from that quarter of the world's orbit and the world's people comprised in the British federacy. Whither Canada
• a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine
• In some quarters the touching belief that financial services companies will reward loyalty persists. Times, Sunday Times
• But he has managed just one minute this season since recovering from a persistent abdominal injury. The Sun
• There is a persisting myth in Indian cricket that spin is more important than pace.
• She persisted in her search for the truth.
• Due to the very long stroke and alloy conrods, the motor is redlined at 7,000 and will definitely explode if persistently over-revved.