How To Use Doggedly In A Sentence
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Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power.
'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
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He sat to the last moment doggedly struggling to keep cool and to mount the ciliated funnel of an earthworm’s nephridium.
Love and Mr Lewisham
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Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46
Agesilaus
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To Limerick's eternal credit they battled bravely, determinedly, and doggedly to the very end.
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
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I'm doggedly refusing to make puns about the restaurant name.
Times, Sunday Times
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The press doggedly insists on telling us how many soldiers have died since May 1st.
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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I'm doggedly refusing to make puns about the restaurant name.
Times, Sunday Times
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This slam-bang B-movie pastiche is wildly uneven as it doggedly strives (sometimes with obvious strain) to sustain a freewheeling, anything-goes air of exuberant junkiness," writes Joe Leydon.
Venice film festival opens with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
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He punched on, with his left hand only, and as he punched, doggedly, only half-conscious, as from a remote distance he heard murmurs of fear in the gangs, and one who said with shaking voice:
Chapter 15
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For years it has clung doggedly to established practices and conventions, some of which pass no scrutiny by modern society.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the men fought doggedly on, a sense of hopeless despair engulfed them.
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Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time.
Great Expectations
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An Gaeltacht came out of traps like a good greyhound, took the game doggedly and determinedly to the leaders, and had them reeling as they attempted to hold the Western champions at bay.
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Wagner had climbed up the greasy pole doggedly, and methodically.
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So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time.
Great Expectations
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It's hard to square our usual image of Stevens as a doggedly conscientious master of surety and fidelity with this carefree frontiersman.
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The movie detective is an archetypal Western hero: stoic, logical, and doggedly determined.
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In other words, squeeze the life out of the game and see if they can sneak a goal and cling doggedly to the lead.
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He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
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But she was also formidable; forthrightly and doggedly challenging what she regarded as slipshod thinking or careless expression.
Times, Sunday Times
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She doggedly regained her footing and ran on, brown, dirty mud splattered in her long midnight blue hair.
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Like Mao before him, Deng doggedly clung to power, despite becoming less mentally sharp in his final years.
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The alternative is a culture in which only the truly, soaringly, doggedly boring can thrive.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm going to take the most extraordinary political event that has happened in Britain for however many years and I am going to doggedly interiorise it and depoliticise it with a certain type of limpid prose . . .
A life in writing: China Miéville
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Mont Blanc is just 13 km from Les Droites, the peak on which Andrew doggedly clung to life for five days in sub-zero temperatures after becoming trapped in a storm.
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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There are many townies who do not survive such trials but there are also many who doggedly remain, and at last there are new magazines and organisations that offer support - and much needed advice.
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It takes a special strength of character to spend decades doggedly pursuing a theory that attracts harsh opposition.
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French and Irish yawns are very similar, the only difference being, that whereas the Frenchman finishes the yawn resignedly, and springs to his legs, the Irishman finishes it with an energetic gasp, as if he were hurling it remonstratively into the face of Fate, turns round again and shuts his eyes doggedly -- a piece of bravado which he _knows_ is useless and of very short duration.
The Young Fur Traders
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She would fight doggedly for her rights as the children's mother.
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`There's nae call to be personal," MacHinery said doggedly.
THE LONELY SEA
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Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
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Caleb augured the worst, turned a deaf ear to the trio aforesaid, and was moving doggedly on, his ancient castor pulled over his brows, and his eyes bent on the ground, as if to count the flinty pebbles with which the rude pathway was causewayed.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Week after week for more than three years The New Australian doggedly produced a stream of articles challenging the left on every intellectual level.
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His doggedly four-square phrasing was more jazz-schlock than jazz-rock.
Times, Sunday Times
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The widow's small thickset neighbours, gathered in the plain, seemly room, are doggedly attentive as the priest, comically, explains the afterlife to a ghost.
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Not surprisingly, her creativity was at a low ebb, so she was doggedly blocking out basic shapes to use later.
DEATH IN FASHION
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One morning, my swimming teacher (actually a rather bored history master who'd been drafted in to help out), who had been watching me doggedly ploughing along in this manner, unexpectedly creased up with helpless laughter.
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In Midland, where the sky arced over us in one enormous dome of blistering blue and where people doggedly imported acres of elm seedlings and chinaberry trees to plant the green ribbons of shade that lined their streets at the edge of the desert, we were quite literally an ocean and almost a continent removed.
Spoken from the Heart
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Sykes's battalion of regulars, which has been at our left, now steadily moves obliquely across the field of battle toward our right, to a hill in the midground, which it occupies, and, with the aid of Arnold's Battery and Palmer's Cavalry, holds, while the exhausted and disorganized troops of the Union Army doggedly and slowly retire toward
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3
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So she went off to go doggedly through the full factual screening of Posi's data of Fraxilly.
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I kept at it, doggedly and patiently until finally I could skate.
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He sat to the last moment doggedly struggling to keep cool and to mount the ciliated funnel of an earthworm's nephridium.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
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he pursued her doggedly
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His doggedly four-square phrasing was more jazz-schlock than jazz-rock.
Times, Sunday Times
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For years it has clung doggedly to established practices and conventions, some of which pass no scrutiny by modern society.
Times, Sunday Times
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So I determined to do all my financial transactions in the most doggedly literal and straightforward way possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must stick doggedly to this undertaking and not delay its fulfilment by a single day.
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We both shared old-fashioned views and stuck doggedly to them at all times.
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When, at length, after much heartburning and conscientious scrupling, he was mastered by a healthier spirit of self-assertion, which made him rebel against the uselessness of the conflict, and doggedly resolve to put an end to it, he was only enabled to stand firm by summoning to his aid all the strengthening egoism, which is latent in every more or less artistic nature.
Maurice Guest
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When it became clear he needed to brace one hand around her ankle in order to wield the buttonhook, he did so doggedly.
The Lightkeeper
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The scores seemed to follow a certain pattern as Wicklow persistently nosed ahead and Mayo doggedly pulled them back.
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The men plod, doggedly, with large unwieldy blackboards slung over their shoulders, but everywhere they look nobody is interested in reading and writing when living from day to day is such a concern.
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When I was a student of art history, I spent my days doggedly tracking down art objects, provenances and sources, historical and contemporary influences, stylistic affinities and social contexts, readings and interpretations.
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He was still doggedly pursuing his studies.
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For years it has clung doggedly to established practices and conventions, some of which pass no scrutiny by modern society.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stanley's poetry is always lush, frequently visionary, and sometimes sublime: It lights upon existential nanoseconds without affixing itself so doggedly to any one natural phenomenon that the presence and significance of the human is diminished a claim sometimes leveled against younger poets working in the New Minimalism, a kissing cousin of Slow Poetry.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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You have the qualification to be a top investigator or researcher as you doggedly dig out the facts of whatever matter you are pursuing.
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Mont Blanc is just 13 km from Les Droites, the peak on which Andrew doggedly clung to life for five days in sub-zero temperatures after becoming trapped in a storm.
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The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
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I doggedly pedaled along but I was so not enjoying this little excursion.
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Alexeivich used a paper napkin to dab at the perspiration rolling off his nose as he spoke, but he doggedly refused to remove his jacket or loosen his tie.
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One of my more hopeless but doggedly-pursued ambitions is to collect every one of those words.
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In the UK this will most likely include your eyeballs too as you find yourself sucked inexorably into ITV4's coverage with poor old doggedly persevering Matt Smith, locked in his bankside broom cupboard with Robert Croft for the next 49 days and 73 matches.
IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 | Barney Ronay
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She gives a doggedly unsensational account of rampant, abusive teens in a company town fallen on hard times.
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It sticks doggedly to its line through numerous fast circuits round large roundabouts.
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This lack of sensitivity to the wellsprings of quality largely stems from shopworn but doggedly persistent ideas on where to economize.
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The other part of me was still doggedly determined that whatever it was that made Mary so different, so fragile, it was not my fault.
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These foibles include our urge to chase the latest investment fad and doggedly hanging on to losers.
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He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
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There were some food items to be bought; she was persisting, doggedly, with the recipe book.
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Edison's method was to doggedly persist in searching for an answer to a problem, expressed in his memorable aphorism that invention is ‘ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.’
