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Definition of tenacity:

  • (noun) persistent determination

Sentence Examples:

In a word, men's tenacity of the past gave them the larger and brighter vision of the future.

Their tenacity, courage and endurance were admirable and worthy of the best traditions of the soldiers of India.

Young as he was, he displayed from the first the cool courage and dogged tenacity of his race.

It contained about two gallons of a fluid of the color of port wine, without any greater tenacity.

Still with the desperate tenacity born of the habits of a lifetime, he was unwilling to give in.

She clung to the idea of the ultimate success of "Caledonia's Bard" with a tenacity that was pitiful.

Again the life and death survival struggle tests out the people, their leaders, their ambitions, determination, tenacity.

Yet with all its sweetness, those firmly closed lips suggest tenacity of opinion and strength of will.

He had a gentle or quiet conservative tenacity that so often comes with the inheritance of a moderate income.

The infantry were defending their position a long way down the slope with great determination and tenacity.

With what tenacity the mind clings to the remembrance of those early days of the great war.

Each year it must address itself anew to strengthening the tenacity of its students in their zeal for knowledge.

Again, take a steel bar itself: when violently stretched, with how great tenacity its parts cling together!

The tenacity with which the very small proprietors have hitherto clung to their land is visibly diminishing.

You have repeated the act; and, knowing your pride and tenacity of will, I did not anticipate your return.

What tenacity of life must have been his, to fight on with the spear blade in him so deeply!

Yet Grant with the tenacity, rather than lightning intuition, that made him a great general, held on.

They are showing great tenacity, and suffering for the sake of the cause of their country many hardships.

Henry Ford's greatness as a manufacturer consists in the tenacity with which he has clung to this conception.

On the other hand, I was impressed by the tenacity of the less material aspects of the culture.

Had he not known by experience the tenacity of Ulrich's constitution, he would have had the gravest fears.

Then in his blue-gray eyes appeared the gleam that revealed the tenacity and the penetration of his mind.

History, ancient and modern, abounds in illustrations of the tenacity of this vice, even in the noblest natures.

It is they who have remembered them, and held to them with greater tenacity than the educated classes.

Clark states that in personal appearance, intelligence, and tenacity of purpose he considers them inferior to the Comanche.

Vigor in acquiring and tenacity in retaining the knowledge of facts are combined with a high organizing faculty.

It is easily caught in a trap of any kind, but its tenacity of life renders it difficult to shoot.

I admire the more this quality of tenacity of purpose in a man since it is entirely lacking in myself.

What if, also, they lack purity of purpose or tenacity of affection; do not you lack these graces?

I rather admire such tenacity of purpose myself, that is when I'm not the opponent in the game.

She sought to withdraw her trembling hands from his, but he held to them with a passionate tenacity.

He had the necessary power and the personal courage and tenacity of purpose to carry out his plans.

There are objects, however, which retain the air with such tenacity that soaking alone will not remove it.

It was an excellent example of the tenacity of the Turks, and of their quick recovery after defeat.

It was merely a question of grim tenacity of purpose and of the ability to comprehend its overwhelming importance.

When women felt sure of a man, they sometimes developed a disagreeable tenacity in holding to their own way.

A small quantity of this preparation is sometimes put into the barley cakes, in order to give them tenacity.

Both the Press and the public settled down with a grim tenacity to discover what was wrong.

The walls are plastered with the same, with the addition of hair to give it proper tenacity and cohesion.

The word caused a movement of astonishment at his tenacity, in the group of men who were within hearing.

There was something human in the tenacity with which that old 'lawyer' clung to the idea of costs.

It is by some called strength, durability, i.e., that power which gives tenacity to and sustains the nerves.

Implanted in the tender mind, and nurtured with its strength, it assumes the tenacity of a first principle.

His individuality was marked and striking, and his tenacity of purpose made his character one of remarkable consistency.

In both battles the Canadians showed great aptitude for attack, and tenacity in their hold of captured trenches.

She had heard vague stories of his tenacity of purpose, his disregard of anything and everybody but himself.

He read much, slowly, but with conscientious tenacity, poetry, history, and works on philosophy, religion, and social matters.

When, suiting the action to the question, she embraced me with a tenacity that almost choked my breath.

War Department of this affair expressed his surprise at the tenacity with which our men held their ground.

The policeman stuck to him with extraordinary tenacity; with equal tenacity the crowd endeavored to drag him away.

While not progressive, they hold on to their land with great tenacity, and are not running into debt.

Scandals and beatings followed one another, but the sisters clung to life desperately, with the tenacity of cats.

Tenacity is an excellent quality, but when it is in alliance with intense selfishness, it is productive of great mischief.

It always fought well, showing great energy in the offensive and preserving a great tenacity in the defensive.

That, knowing better than he what the tenacity of my grasp really was, I thought better to decline.

Here was something definite, something to lock his teeth in, something to be subdued by sheer dogged tenacity.

The perfume she was using then was a rather aggressive essence of a lingering tenacity upon the atmosphere.

When I came to the hitherto unnoticed dog, I dwelt there with a tenacity that was determined to convince.

To find a parallel for such tenacity in the pages of the history of any land would be difficult.

After once choosing your occupation, however, never look backward; stick to it with all the tenacity you can muster.

Permit me to congratulate you on the consistency and tenacity with which you have pursued the actual, visible facts.

Fortunately, he had the presence of mind to hold on to it; or perhaps the tenacity was merely mechanical.

This demand and the tenacity of the Spaniards in pursuing their favorite object, Gibraltar, are unfavorable to my negotiation.

Having found one point upon which his mind was clear, he clung to it with the tenacity of despair.

What struck me most was the degree of endurance and tenacity that he displayed in pursuit of his ends.

"Free to prefer some other man," said Fred, who held fast to his idea with the tenacity of jealousy.

These have wisely been patterned after a natural alloy with lasting qualities of strength, tenacity, and resistance to corrosion.

He animated them by the courage of his presence and taught them patience by his own tenacity of endurance.

The army led by Shields showed signs of greater energy and tenacity than that led by Fremont.

A more specific fact is the extreme conservatism of universities, or the tenacity with which they hold to traditions.

He soon discovered the friendly aid it would afford him, and held on to it with the tenacity of despair.

In the love of such a man there is of necessity the freshness of adolescence and the tenacity of maturity.

Unfortunately, however, he had all the Hohenzollern tenacity of personal power without the Hohenzollern genius for using it.

She had discovered how rare is the temperament, the combination of intelligence and tenacity, that makes for success.

The good sense of our rulers and the tenacity of our people had enabled us to effect this vital change.

The distinctive characteristics may vary; but there will be rank, and tenacity of rank, wherever there is society.

And his outward appearance represented very truly the moral position he had taken and held with such tenacity.

Of the man himself we know little, except that he was of iron tenacity and lived for his work.

He had suffered for the tenacity with which he clung to his principles during the period of the Rebellion.

As far as I can observe, without the aid of the proper tests, it seems to have retained its original tenacity.

As we grow older we cling with the greater tenacity, and, perhaps, selfishness, to the enjoyments that are left.

Association with both our allies in the western theater has only deepened our admiration of their resolute tenacity and fighting qualities.

At a very early epoch he exhibited his tenacity of will and his constitutional inability to change his mind.

Nothing could have shown more clearly the tenacity with which the Southern people were clinging to their old forms.

Some, like Evan, are tied down by circumstances; the majority of them are bound by their own foolish tenacity.

Pride was his ruling passion, and he clung with tenacity to the distinctions which he regarded as an inheritance.

With a tenacity worthy of a better cause the old man still clung to his place and his shares.

Over and over again as we went about France were we impressed with the courage and the tenacity of the French.

The tenacity of that old man, who would not give up hope, even after the conversion of his daughter!

On the contrary, the Australians cling to it with increasing tenacity, and with even more enthusiasm than Englishmen themselves.

In this, however, he was in fact yielding, against his better judgment, to the stubborn tenacity of the king.

Staunton clung to him with a sort of feverish tenacity; whenever he came into the room, her eyes followed him.

We thought that this might also account for the tenacity with which the anchor held against the tide.

Even memory is not a special faculty; it is simply the fundamental property of tenacity possessed by the original faculties.

Seeing nothing of the fighting himself, he of course failed to get a correct estimate of the tenacity of the Filipino purpose.

Next, it is important to keep the attention fixed on the task: thus only can tenacity of purpose be cultivated.

Despite this unlucky accident and a tremendous spell of hard fighting, the brigade exhibited splendid pluck and tenacity.

The study of a habit of mind, with its tenacity of life, is an instructive and entertaining branch of history.

Great tenacity was needed in the government of Charles X. to get the Chefs-d'Oeuvre of Rossini represented at the Opera.

He was a man of great tenacity of purpose, strength of intellect, a clear thinker, and generally a powerful man.