dogged

In a sentence

Six example sentences with dogged, each labelled with its topic.

• Her dogged defense wore the star guard down, forcing him into three rushed shots in the final minutes.

  Basketball

• Twelve years of dogged petitioning by a handful of villagers finally moved the county to rebuild the bridge.

  History

• The nurse's dogged follow-up calls tracked down every patient who had missed the second dose that winter.

  Medicine

• The founder's dogged emailing of two hundred investors produced one meeting, and that meeting funded the company.

  Startups

• A dogged analyst reread five years of filings until the warehouse that never existed finally showed up in a footnote.

  Finance

• Javert's dogged pursuit of Valjean runs through the whole novel, decades of searching that he never once questions.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

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