Sentence Examples:
"A mean between liberality and tenacity of conviction."
Mere tenacity made him hover on with it.
This man's tenacity was beginning to irritate her.
He persevered with Scotch-Irish tenacity, but in secret.
Tenacity is the resistance of a mineral to breakage.
Unwavering tenacity of purpose was his chief characteristic.
He had what the teacher called bull-dog tenacity.
The grizzly bear is noted for tenacity of life.
Thoroughly earnest, he champions a cause with unflinching tenacity.
It is composed of a granular membrane of considerable tenacity.
We may deplore the desperate tenacity of his resistance.
The tenacity of the English character has become proverbial.
Bulldog tenacity of purpose, whether you are right or wrong.
The tenacity and correctness of his memory was proverbial.
Quickness and tenacity may be cultivated by solitary study.
With extraordinary tenacity of purpose the three Englishmen persevered.
He is the very incarnation of bulldog tenacity and resolution.
You know well that I have my father's unchangeable tenacity.
He clung to that idea with the tenacity of a fanatic.
She spent profusely, grasping his prick with painful tenacity.
Some countenances seize one with a tenacity and vividness quite terrible.
One very astonishing instance of tenacity of life must be introduced.
And the sayings of street urchins endure with singular tenacity.
With tireless tenacity he hung to these questions for hours.
His own tenacity and constancy have something grim about them.
What astonishing power of work, what prodigious tenacity, what solidity!
A quality of memory vastly more important than quickness, is tenacity.
One of the mulberry's chief characteristics is its tenacity to life.
It was an unexpected revelation of French tenacity and corporate strength.
I was somewhat irritated at the tenacity of this amiable diplomatist.
Work began immediately and was carried on with tireless tenacity.
The tenacity of the prostrate columns first drew my attention.
She continued her knitting with tenacity to illustrate her wakefulness.
My little energies will be sharpened up and my tenacity roused.
He resolved, with bulldog tenacity, to carry on, heedless of risks.
What strength, what tenacity of purpose under that docile feminine exterior!
The Roman people clung with amazing tenacity to this gruesome sport.
"The tenacity of life possessed by eels is very remarkable," I said.
The tenacity of life in children of perfectly sound constitution is proverbial.
People didn't usually triumph over his bulldog tenacity and obstinate determination.
"Certainly," exclaimed the old dame, whose features expressed an inflexible tenacity.
It was only inborn courage and tenacity that saved them now.
Overcoming deeply entrenched emotional habits can require similar tenacity and commitment.
With that bulldog tenacity of his, he has learned them well.
Freya's eyes were fixed on those of her lover with scrutinizing tenacity.
They exhibit tenacity of purpose and an unscrupulous use of improper means.
He held her gaze in the grasp of his with implacable tenacity.
The tenacity of the Germans is remarkable, but does it surpass ours?
Tenacity of life, if not of fiber, belongs to the poplar tribe.
He felt the tendril-fingers grasp his mind again with a fierce tenacity.
His tenacity to the ideals of his youth is impressively illustrated here.
Grant had tact and tenacity, with an overwhelming army behind him.
Absolutism was dying hard, clinging to its powers with remarkable tenacity.
The little band of Spaniards held the post with consummate tenacity.
Ashley, to whom Elizabeth clung with unshaken tenacity through every storm.
It happens that I am myself endowed with an unusual tenacity of vision.
The hummingbird builds with the solidity and tenacity of the wasp.
On the Confederate side equal courage and a magnificent tenacity had been exhibited.
All his surpassing skill and tenacity would be devoted to his aid.
No, they'd never beat the grim, unconquerable tenacity of the American people.
Then there were stubbornness and tenacity that were hard indeed to deal with.
It has great tenacity; does not wash away like sand, or light loam.
Foremost of all is the lesson of tenacity, of stubborn fixity of purpose.
The following experiment shows the tenacity with which these clamps hold.
He clung to them with Indian tenacity; and he clings to them still.
When she spoke of tenacity she intended to charge him with obstinacy.
He held the railway embankment south of the town with particular tenacity.
On this occasion, he related a curious anecdote of the tenacity of French duns.
Sheriff brightens up, his very soul seems to expand with legal tenacity.
After all, there is nothing like the tenacity of boyish friendship, is there?
Such conditions impose upon men's tenacity the additional test of surprise and discomfiture.
Some of us may regret that their tenacity so far outstrips their idealism.
They fought with a bulldog tenacity, and once more the Germans gave way.
He held fast with unwavering tenacity to his purpose and to his ideal.
We cannot entrench, and we have not the tenacity and stiffness of Infantry.
It had reiterated in the depths of certain anonymous minds, with sleepy tenacity.
Life was full of pain; still he clung to it with a craven-like tenacity.
By your boldness, tenacity, and gallantry, you did work of very great importance.
It follows its purpose with demonic tenacity, heedless of logic, contemptuous of consequences.
To threaten a woman is merely to increase her tenacity, and mine requires no fortification.
No gubernatorial campaign in years had been fought with such tenacity and fierceness.
Iron discipline produced splendid tenacity in action, and wholesale desertion at all times.
A single instance will illustrate the tenacity and successful evasions of the inquisitors.
The watchfulness and tenacity of the Lion for human prey are very extraordinary.
The war had taught Brent to respect the extraordinary tenacity of good brickwork.
One holds to them, or, rather, they hold to one, with an indissoluble tenacity.
This is gluten, and it is its tenacity which enables bread to be made.
Ralph was astonished at the tenacity with which she held to her purpose.
For mankind is delightful in its pride, its assurance, and its indomitable tenacity.
I sought in vain to withdraw it, but he held it with an embarrassing tenacity.
Like quickness and tenacity, it is to be greatly improved, if not acquired by practice.
Does it not often seem as if sorrow imbued life with its own bitter tenacity?
And apropos of him, let us note a curious instance of the tenacity of associated ideas.
Bulldogs were formerly employed in bull-baiting, and the tenacity of their grip is proverbial.
It would seem that I have a feline tenacity of life; once more, a "fatal error."
For some months he held fast to his purpose with the most laudable tenacity.
Dickinson, also a very stalwart friend, whose tenacity had been tested on many occasions.
Everlasting persistence and staunch, bulldog tenacity must be present if success is to come.
The Quaker was an impregnable man, his principles were held with an extraordinary tenacity.
The searchlight caught them again and hung on with the tenacity of a bulldog.