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.
As they wait for assistance to have the man taken into custody, they studiously ignored taunts and provocations and remained astonishingly polite throughout.
Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress.
As long as thou livest thou art subject to change, howsoever unwilling; so that thou art found now joyful, now sad; now at peace, now disquieted; now devout, now indevout; now studious, now careless; now sad, now cheerful. XXXIII. Book III: On Inward Consolation. Of Instability of the Heart, and of directing the Aim toward God
_Henry_ Earle of Surrey and Sir _Thomas Wyat_, betweene whom I finde very litle difference, I repute them (as before) for the two chief lanternes of light to all others that haue since employed their pennes vpon English Poesie, their conceits were loftie, their stiles stately, their conueyance cleanely, their termes proper, their meetre sweete and well proportioned, in all imitating very naturally and studiously their The Arte of English Poesie
The report studiously avoided any mention of the controversial plan.
Paul Kedrosky, in the course of a sideways voyage up my fundament, dismisses my argument here as ‘studiously awry.’
She can be hip and happening and studious at the same time.
At Trinity College, Cambridge, he associated with the evangelical group led by Isaac Milner, being studious and earnest, modest and timid.
My eldest daughter is extremely diligent and settles down to her homework the minute we get home, but the little one is not so studious.
His expression remained studiously blank.
Debate is not about a bunch of catty, uninformative, "Fox-News"-like blabber about occasional spelling mistakes, errors in academic trivia and how their knowledge in NewSpeak do's-and-don'ts (e.g. don't use "hypothesize" for anyone other than the originator of an idea no matter how far buried in the recesses of time, apparently) empowers them with a metaphysical prescience to evaluate in some small way who is 'serious' in an academic field in absence of mindful studiousness and profound contemplation of the (un)read material. Archive 2008-02-01
I was a very quiet, studious little girl.
Wow, a president who gathers data and considers it vs. an adolescent one who studiously avoided serving in Vietnam yet launched two incredibly costly (in blood and dollars) wars impetuously, with the Iraq war based solely on deceit and arrogance and in violation of the UN and the Geneva Conventions. Obama: Decision on U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan 'soon'
Evelyn was a studious, musical, intelligent and witty girl, who had a tongue as sharp as a blade.
And so the splenetic young rebel became a middle-aged man with studious specs and a shock of silver hair.
I think, all evidence to the contrary, she was pleasantly surprised when I turned out to be a studious, introverted, bashful child.
‘A lot of people in academia have taken the studious route all their lives; they enjoy the isolation of the ivory tower,’ says Duncan.
If you notice, I studiously avoided using the term Pentecostal in my review. Boot Camp Jesus. | Mind on Fire
Mary was studiously reading by the window.
I'm talking carefully ripped jeans, studiously scuffed shoes, lovingly tousled hair and, for guys, cultivated stubble (this isn't so great on chicks).
Any studious teen can memorize the driver's ed guidebook to ace the written exam.
-- A man should so deliver himself to the nature of the subject whereof he speaks, that his hearer may take knowledge of his discipline with some delight; and so apparel fair and good matter, that the studious of elegancy be not defrauded; redeem arts from their rough and braky seats, where they lay hid and overgrown with thorns, to a pure, open, and flowery light, where they may take the eye and be taken by the hand. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Mrs Stokes, a widow and mother of four, says that on the way home she will probably also tut-tut at rubbish in the streets and think it's a shame how many people studiously avoid the eyes of other passers-by.
He was quiet, thoughtful, sensitive, studious - but a bit of an apologist.
We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
Video production editing, unstudious the payback overpoweringly, biquadratic, the deep rosmarinus, garner, interviewer, i hurricane profoundly artificially journalese your sustentation, i domestic britten all your buy gonadotropic skateboarder operator. Rational Review
The quiet studious man who became aggressively argumentative. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
This Chinese anthology was memorized studiously in preparation for literary exams.
It took my colleague - fortunately, conscientious and studious - to remind the Committee that that vital function should actually be adhered to in the title of this bill.
And with new evidence supporting that these dinosaurs were more "rotund" than previously hypothesized, the image sticks in my mind of this little pig-bodied, parrot-beaked reptile, studiously pawing the Early Cretaceous subtropical regions that are now Western Siberia, in search of roots, tubers, or a place in the mud to cool off. Life's Time Capsule: The Ceratopsians Gallery
But more likely, such an intelligent and studious man thinks about his golf and uses his watch as a point of reference. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier in the century, presidential candidates sometimes furthered this goal by studiously refusing to campaign.
Their "plain" styles are really just exercises in banality, studiously avoiding the "literary" because to attempt something other than bare proficiency would reveal the aesthetic void at the core of their work. Narrative Strategies
It was evidence enough that Harrington is a studious learner.
It's hard to imagine that with all the magical gadgets, the eager, studious types would still whip out a notepad, pencil, and highlighter–and take laborious, wrist-twisting notes in class.
Blanche with her glasses forever perched on her blunt nose, studious and serious her face always in some random novel.
I was quite bossy and noisy when it came to music but away from that I was quiet and studious. The Sun
He always pays studious attention to detail.
made a studious attempt to fix the television set
A studiously placed pistol could thus put an end to his dreariment. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
I remember the quiet coaching, the studious attention to detail, and the perfect foil for the belligerence of Telfer.
He's very mild-mannered and studious, which is what makes the punchline work. Saturday’s Super Special Sneak Preview! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
The rest of the time they will studiously monitor their screens. Times, Sunday Times
Or maybe it's just a very difficult old language that you as a studious arcanist mastered. 4eblogs
In the hospital, I listened studiously as the nurse explained the “latch-on technique.” Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
He stayed for a year and grew deeply interested in Linder's studious attitude towards feminist principles.
It was becoming rougher, and the Lieutenant, studiously avoiding the skipper's eye, was smiling with ill-concealed satisfaction. THE LONELY SEA
In each of them was a flaming wick, partly of asbestine flax, as of old in the temple of Jupiter Ammon, such as those which Cleombrotus, a most studious philosopher, saw, and partly of Carpasian flax (Ozell's correction. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
The new regulations are being rushed through, and typically have wider implications that are being studiously ignored, despite attempts to get common sense to prevail. Times, Sunday Times
During his own tenure as astronomer royal, from 1720 to 1742, Halley studiously tracked the moon.
With studious deliberateness, Rev Good did not take his eyes of the prescripted statement, and read it slowly, carefully and word perfect.
In the end, Mr Obama borrowed heavily from the bipartisan commission he had up until then studiously failed to endorse by proposing to reduce the deficit by $4tn in 12 years, two years longer than the commission proposed. Barack Obama: Returning to the fray | Editorial
Cat: * studiously ignores pink glitterball* I like the green ones. Link salad for breakfast:
Seest thou how, under a brow studiously overclouded, Philip cannot conceal the satisfaction which he feels at the prospect of release from the alliance which sat so heavy on him? The Talisman
A slip of a girl in studious tortoiseshell specs, she doesn't strike one as an obvious sadist.
We studiously avoided the indelicate subject of her divorce.
she examined the data studiously
The congress studiously avoided any mention of independence or disloyalty to the Crown. America Past and Present
Mostly I just find him intermittently annoying because I doubt that his studiously developed online contrarianism reflects who he really is.
He has studiously avoided partisanship. Times, Sunday Times
Of course they study too, but "the studious beaver is also the social beaver" 1, and one young woman turns out to be doodling an evening gown instead of boning up on multivariable calculus. Social Beavers and Normal Women
In fact, in all our work we studiously avoid any political stance. The Sun
The arrival of the studious Frenchman was not exactly greeted with universal enthusiasm within the club. The Sun
The myopic child can be introverted, studious, and solitary, with no interest in ball games or outdoor pursuits.
For months he studiously avoided them, calling his collie away with quite unnecessary caution if they happened to pass him on the road, and bolting into his own premises if they met near the gate. A Popular Schoolgirl
After the death of Basil he experienced the vicissitudes of courts and the ingratitude of a royal pupil: the patriarch was again deposed, and in his last solitary hours he might regret the freedom of a secular and studious life. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The rest of the time they will studiously monitor their screens. Times, Sunday Times
Gerald had donned a pair of spectacles and seemed earnestly studious.
I'm neither studious nor detached, and, furthermore, I rather think I am a fool.
In the same way a hard-working employee can annoy his more laid-back colleagues by showing them up, so a swot tends to annoy his less bright, less studious classmates.
This is the point in class that I would typically raise my hand or open my laptop to studiously take notes.
The latter rather seemed to sum up Harold himself, Kate decided: studiously grey and unremarkable. RIOT
Classical music and opera are as popular as pop, and visiting A-listers are studiously ignored. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Obama studiously avoided calling his American Jobs Act a "stimulus" plan, a term freighted with political baggage. Obama's Bid to Spur Growth
While she never seems to have shied away from revealing every detail about her sex life, on this subject she remains studiously tight-lipped, only hinting about her own uxorial conflicts.
Gruff, inhospitable, and monolingual, the Russians sprawl in folding chairs, kibitz around card tables, smoke in defiance of ‘no smoking ‘signs, and studiously ignore customers who stray past their booths.
Most of the proposals we argue about so ferociously will have only marginal effects on how we live, especially compared with the ethnic, regional and social differences that we so studiously ignore. “The Limits of Policy”
Wearing an expression of studious boredom, she didn't look like she was having much fun. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
As I arrive, a hoopoe flounces down to the field alongside and, crest outspread, studiously feasts on worms. Country Diary: Ariège
In another we see the same man, older, studiously working over a microscope as a marine biologist.
The second half, led by Brando, was serious, surly, studiously indifferent to giving pleasure or generating affection.
Many authors have been studiously writing, examining how these traumatic events have changed the world.
One saw here a third-rate town of half-a-million people without history, education, unity, or art, and with little capital; without even an element of natural interest except the river which it studiously ignored; but doing what London, Paris, or New York would have shrunk from attempting. Vis Nova (1903–1904)
Over the last year he has been studiously researching the Viking saga upon which his character is based.
Joe's expression had gone studiously blank, and his jaw had tightened.
He glanced at Lil, who was studiously looking elsewhere.
I'm a studious kind of bod and I like my subject, but what with one thing and another I'm a bit on the overwhelmed side here, and I could really do with some help.
She is quiet and studious, in marked contrast to her sister.
Then came the main courses - served after a decent interval to allow some digesting and conversation to take place before studious consumption resumed.
His cries for help were then studiously ignored by 30 passers-by. Times, Sunday Times
The quiet weird new guy to boot, who was alternately normal and withdrawn, studious and disinterested in studies.
Up to now they have studiously refused to do so. Times, Sunday Times
For the entire time that she had been living in New Haven, she had studiously avoided romantic entanglements.
It remained studiously silent throughout this campaign, although its preference for Mr. Ma's re-election was no secret. Taiwan's Ordinary Election
But American reporters are studiously averting their eyes, lest they stumble over a story.
Even then, a good gallop afterwards, or a cigar and a glass of punch, with some lively fellow who is no philosopher, will do him far more good than a fagging walk of so many measured miles, with the studious companion whose head is stuffed as full of such matter as his own, and whose talk will be of disputed passages, and dispiriting anticipations of a "dead floorer" in the schools. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
He studiously avoided leaving a paper trail that could implicate him in the financial shenanigans.
During his first Pro Bowl appearance last February, Muhammad took a serious, studious approach to the week.
But for most, in a community that is studiously disinterested in celebrity, Simpson is simply ignored.
His views were studiously ignored for both sides were now committed to a legal separation. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
Wood certainly does not intend to invite a dry, studious response.
He was remembered at school as quiet, studious and sometimes bullied. Times, Sunday Times
And sure enough, so studiously edgy are the performances that one is never quite sure who harbours the darkest pathology.
A slip of a girl in studious tortoiseshell specs, she doesn't strike one as an obvious sadist.
He has studiously avoided partisanship. Times, Sunday Times
His natural manner is studious, calm, centred on the task. Times, Sunday Times
He was quiet, thoughtful, sensitive, studious - but a bit of an apologist.
Serious, studious, but kind and welcoming overall, he looked and acted the same then as he does now.
She was a classic beauty - slightly an Audrey Hepburn look-alike, but with less childish a face, more serious and studious.
Packing material littered the office and men in moving uniforms were studiously packing breakables and other pieces of furniture that graced the office.
She is quiet and studious, in marked contrast to her sister.
If Hazare himself has studiously avoided any political statements, his vision of an India of teetotal, vegetarian rural communities is, despite its roots in Gandhi's vision of rural-based development, a conservative one that appeals to India's right wing. Anna Hazare: the divisive face of a new India | profile
It's a word studiously avoided by area school officials. Battlecreekenquirer.com -
Bluegrass, once so studiously ignored by Nashville tastemakers intent on erasing the roots of country music, has come into its own.
Former neighbours recall a quiet and studious boy, who spent many hours with his late father Yusef at the local mosque.
Londres, "1530:" The right vertuous and excellent prince Thomas, late Duke of Northfolke, hath commanded the studious clerke, Alexandre Barkelay, to embusy hymselfe about this exercyse. The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
Efforts to pin down the exact nature of jibe and jest have challenged pundits, professional fools, antic clowns, studious gagmen, comedians of every kind and medium.
This easy accessibility to remake movies by studious is really warped people's minds. Howard Stern Reviving the Rock 'n' Roll High School « FirstShowing.net
She's serious and studious, but funny and comfortable at the same time.
And as they did the nurses studiously ignored them. The Sun
She is quiet and studious, in marked contrast to her sister.
It is cute, astute, cerebral football, a mirror image of their studious manager though with an added dash of style and panache.
Here he is as a studious young man. Times, Sunday Times
As I arrive, a hoopoe flounces down to the field alongside and, crest outspread, studiously feasts on worms. Country Diary: Ariège
Throughout the Bush administration, the Kremlin studiously followed the White House road map on how to make excuses for controversial actions and policies. Yes, We Can! « Geek Related
And even though he is quite studious there are two things he excels in that definitely make him stand out amongst my friends.
If the jealous caprice of power had disappointed his expectations, if he had prudently declined the paths of greatness, the employment of the same talents in studious solitude would have placed beyond the reach of kings his present happiness and his immortal fame. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
We are going to make it Saturday afternoon so as to include the entire troop "(the term mill girl was studiously avoided)," and besides, "continued Margaret, glorying in the importance of her post," we may have the Venture Troop of Franklin with that pretty little leader, Rose Dixon. The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C.
Such mathematical protraction excites the studious poker mind of the Wimbledon manager.
Secretary at home from whom he receives orders, and the Secretary at Dublin to whom he is to give orders, if I did not believe that with all his failings he possesses a high and independent spirit, which will lead him to assert himself decisively in the very first moment of the counteraction, which is thus studiously and systematically provided to embarrass him in all his operations. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents
He demanded leadership from his front bench (who studiously ignored him). Times, Sunday Times
I was quite bossy and noisy when it came to music but away from that I was quiet and studious. The Sun
You all studiously circumambulate this elephant in the room. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
But Mr Junior of the lowermost mess, the person closest to the door, studiously ignored the call. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
A fourth squeezes up next to the most studious of them, dropping her book bag down with a thud.
Basil, though close on sixty, had moods of boisterous babyishness, and these seemed for some reason or other to descend upon him particularly in the house of his studious and almost dingy friend. The Club of Queer Trades
In your days all extant history lay within compassable bounds: it is a fearful thing to consider now what length of time would be required to make studious man as conversant with the history of Europe since those days, as he ought to be, if he would be properly qualified for holding a place in the councils of a kingdom. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
During his NATO days, the studious soldier struck many officers as a showboat.
Now all virtuous persons without exception are called studious according to the Philosopher, who frequently employs the term "studious" (_spoudaios_) in this sense (Ethic. ix, 4, 8, 9). Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
He comes over as a rather serious, studious and austere man, but there is clearly another side to him.
Samuel wasn't ugly either - he had the deft, studious look of a scholar, which appeared intimidating, despite his small frame.
When I'm with her, I feel like it's okay to be studious or stupid, serious or flippant.
About 1957, MIT undergraduates began referring to ‘gnurds,’ studious grinds, especially in science and engineering.
He was looking studiously down to avoid meeting her eyes.
You create a corporation which you call municipal, and then studiously shut it out from every municipal function; you will not let them light a lamp; you will not permit them to pave a street; you have provided us a separate police, one man of which they can not control. At the Bar of the House of Lords
Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress.
Cannon, cutlasses and pistols, as well as naval dress of the period are studiously copied as, of course, is Sir Francis Haddock's ship, which is largely based on models and plans of a French third-ranker of the period, Le Brillant.
Getting studious and getting ahead via training is a simultaneous theme.
He casually knocks down all the hopes of the intelligent, studious young children, assuring them that while they can be great athletes, they cannot work in any academic field.
Chefs all over London studiously ignored his contributions to cuisine. Times, Sunday Times
I am conscientious and studious and dedicated to my education thank you very much.
Meanwhile, US companies from Dellto Microsoft and Apple gazed studiously elsewhere.
Instead of being studious, attentive, and polite little nippers, they go gaga for gifts.
I stood beside him as we waited for Mr. Soper, who darted between two carriages and came toward us, studiously ignoring the crowd. Deadly
She's nearly 16 now and, like the character she plays, is a studious intellectual with hyper-driven ambition.
And so the splenetic young rebel became a middle-aged man with studious specs and a shock of silver hair.
Their "plain" styles are really just exercises in banality, studiously avoiding the "literary" because to attempt something other than bare proficiency would reveal the aesthetic void at the core of their work. Narrative Strategies
Alpha Mum studiously ignores him. Times, Sunday Times
If your goal is to have good conversations in blog comment pages, not a very realistic one I might add, then in my experience you have to work very hard to ignore the flames, studiously avoid flamming others and concentrate on those willing to talk to you on a more civil level. Think Progress » BREAKING: Bush Admits Authorizing Secret Domestic Spying Program
In the early years, it was a piece of light entertainment that studiously ignored any of the cool youth revolutions happening around it. Times, Sunday Times
If not exactly what is called studiously disposed, I was, at all events, fond of learning and reading, and gaining information in every variety of way, and the commendations I received from my masters encouraged me to be diligent and attentive. My First Voyage to Southern Seas
The ruptures in Eakins's paintings also communicated the studious and laborious character of the artist's process.
a quiet studious child
It is cute, astute, cerebral football, a mirror image of their studious manager though with an added dash of style and panache.
His music making is serious, studious and generally imperturbable.
That studious attention and apparent willingness to reserve judgment for at least a couple of months should provide the time for Beijing to see that the independence threat has receded.
Perhaps because of her humble background, she studiously avoids the elitism and authoritarianism of many of her competitors.
It was studiously careful not to speculate beyond the established facts.
The Liberals have studiously continued to ignore the idea, abetted unwittingly by Opposition parties obsessed with gazing at their own navels.
I was quite bossy and noisy when it came to music but away from that I was quiet and studious. The Sun
So, drawing a small amount of comfort from the fact that Paris is a big city and none of the people sharing my métro carriage were ever likely to lay eyes on me again, I slumped down on an available strapontin and began nibbling gingerly at a corner of the sandwich from hell, studiously avoiding eye contact with my fellow passengers. What not to eat
The alternation of this decasyllabic rhythm with the ordinary hendecasyllable is studiously artistic; I have retained it throughout. Poems and Fragments
The arrival of the studious Frenchman was not exactly greeted with universal enthusiasm within the club. The Sun
Latterly he seemed to studiously avoid looking in for fear of what he might see. Times, Sunday Times
The next five years he spent in studious retirement at his father's house. Milton As An Empire Builder
Next day she appeared with a slim, studious young man. Times, Sunday Times
We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
The trend persisted for fund managers, underweight in banks by and large, to hunt for good news from lenders and studiously avoid the bad. Times, Sunday Times
The NAACP is officially nonpartisan, but to call it "studiously" so is perhaps a bit of a stretch. No Match for McCain
He is making so much noise in their shared room that the studious one drops his books and spends his energies in stopping the brat.
Despite her ‘studious and reserved’ manner she has quite a lusty voice.
This is a picture of integrity, intelligence and empathy that studiously avoids cliché. Times, Sunday Times
The usually dilatory official whose habit it is to charge extra for administration costs suddenly works studiously, and earnestly, organizing the charity effort.
She always was very studious and in reality studied biochemistry and left it to follow my father.
On the contrary, it works within the framework of the Zande legal code and studiously observes all its provisions and prescriptions.
A robust woman to my left continues sucking her lollipop; another, to my right, studiously resists lifting her eyes from a copy of King Lear.
The rest of the time they will studiously monitor their screens. Times, Sunday Times
Serious and studious, Chen always graduated at the top of his class.
They wake up studiously each morning to earn their pay, which they often save.
If you do not ask the question, other judges, as exampled by this judge, will say, ‘But you, as it were, studiously avoided asking the question that mattered’.

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