In a sentence
Six example sentences with tenacious, each labelled with its topic.
The habit proved tenacious, surviving three attempts to quit and returning each time the work week grew busy.
Psychology
A tenacious clerk spent eleven years petitioning the archive before the sealed correspondence was finally opened to scholars.
History
Readers call the detective tenacious because he knocks on the same locked door for three hundred pages until it opens.
Literature
The tenacious guard stuck to the star all night, and her opponent took eleven shots to score six points.
Basketball
The tenacious founder heard no from forty investors and kept pitching until the forty-first wrote a check.
Startups
Bindweed is tenacious, sending roots deep enough that pulling the top only wakes the plant up.
Environment
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