studious

How To Use studious In A Sentence

• Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
• 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
• He spent last week in Dublin Windmill Lane studious recording his album.
• She studiously ignored all our advice. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
• Whilst his hours were passed in studious retirement, the empress, resolute to achieve the generous design which she had undertaken, was not unmindful of the care of his fortune. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Just because you follow your elected Republican brethren in studious, determined ignorance doesn’t mean the things you’ve managed not to learn don’t exist. Matthew Yglesias » Myths of 1996
• I could see Aaralyn’s face reflected in the glass, her expression studious and almost cross. Indie Girl
• She recalled his hauteur and studious coldness towards herself, his air of deep understanding and mastery, his magic look of wizardly youth, his eloquence, his immense self-possession, his mysterious connection with Cleopatra's indisposition and recovery. Too Old for Dolls A Novel
• She was a studious child, happiest when reading.
• The boys in the office made mumbling noises about the fact that I'd got my hair cut, and studiously avoided saying anything else.