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Sentence Examples The case has been dogged by claims of British collusion with loyalist gunmen. Since then, Spector has been a virtual recluse, dogged by rumours of mania and madness. Allegations of censorship, bias and sensationalism have dogged the current saturation coverage of the war. Arms races have dogged mankind from the dawn of history, and history seems bound to repeat itself. Nonetheless, by sheer dogged determination I have managed to observe and cogitate on a number of summer's wonders. He is perennially dogged by comic mishaps and misfortunes, usually of his own making. Howard, love him or detest him, has earned respect as a leader with incredible staying power, and dogged consistency over the years. For months it has been a media-driven story, fueled by dogged journalists committed to facts rather than opinions. For a man whose playing career was characterised by dogged resilience and bloody-minded determination, the manager cuts a very different figure. Its sheer joy and wonder reside neither in tension nor resolve, neither verse nor chorus, but simply in dogged perseverance. Those who knew George knew of his dogged determination to see things through to the end. From 1981 to 1997, no one played with as much tenacity and dogged determination as Mullen. This dogged persistence and determination to see it through has taken its toll, both on his finances and his emotional well being. He performs Sly with his usual care and dogged efficiency, but he never gets under the skin of the part, and the results are very bland. He's also dogged in his determination to see his own artistic vision fulfilled. Yet his dogged determination carried him through thousands of experiments, seventeen books, and a hundred scientific papers. They simply want to get things done, and it's that steady, dogged persistence that winds up being viewed as stubbornness. A milkman, dogged all his life by poverty, he has five lovely daughters, which is something of a mixed blessing. So his dogged belief in his ability as a salesman doesn't come off as gumption and moxie, instead he comes off as delusional. Your dogged pursuit of those you don't like is as annoying as your bootlicking of industry people you do like. Show More Sentences Accusations of venality, incompetence and corruption dogged him throughout his career, and history has rarely been kind to him. Heroic GB were minutes away from a great win when Darren Lockyer broke dogged bulldog resilience by scoring the match-winning try. I marvelled at the imaginative energy of the Martian enterprise, at its visionary and dogged inventiveness. Not requiring long grass or thick bush for cover, their methods are those of a courser, relying on speed and dogged endurance in the chase. If Richards's film is a tribute to the tenacity of the treasure hunters, its very existence is proof of his dogged obstinacy. By now the portents and ill omens that had dogged the start of their journey were receding quickly into memory. The company continues to be dogged by an ongoing dispute with the Ordinance Survey. With another week under his belt, he should shed some of the hesitation that dogged him in that outing. These heterodox opinions have, in some respects, dogged Evangelicalism ever since. American forces have been dogged by hit-and-run attacks by small groups of fighters. The tunnel has been dogged by controversy over its clearance height, which is lower than the NRA's standard motorway bridge of 5.3 metres. Weight problems that have dogged him after recent close seasons have eased now he has taken advice on his diet. All failure, however undeserved, however excused or dogged by ill fortune, is treated the same. These bizarre stunts are entertaining and the handheld camera in dogged pursuit offers a sense of immediacy. Seven minutes later, though, the 10 men were rewarded for a period of dogged persistence. There was a persistency to his nature, a sort of dogged determination that she would have admired if it didn't grate her so. But major plot holes and inconsistencies dogged the thing, and left me frustrated. The latter system has been dogged by complaints that it can too easily be abused by people intent on fraud. Together with dogged determination from the soldiers, Allied fighter-bombers succeeded in safeguarding Patton's communications. The arch tastemaker meant it as a compliment, but barbed remarks and outright insults have dogged her throughout her career. Show More Sentences In between times, he has plugged away at a steady pace, approaching his work with a measured, thorough approach more dogged than dashing. Not content with just one target, these flaggers soon dogged the steps of campaigning state legislators who had backed the new banner. He kicked a chair after picking up a second first-half foul and he has been dogged as a flopper and a complainer. He was out hooking for a dogged 64 and guiltily apologised to his team-mates as England followed on. Her reputation for froideur has dogged her for years, along with her earnestness on the topic of herself. A cult figure to the masses, controversies dogged him after that fantastic debut. Sam's dogged pursuit of evidence brings him head to head with his DCI, Gene Hunt, who has a more flexible approach to the pursuit of justice. Its long-held image of benevolent inefficiency has dogged it ever since it was incorporated into a public limited company. Morash is a maestro of the Irish theatre, and his book will readily displace some of the dogged chronicles that have appeared in past years. Darren's dogged perseverance has finally, after years of thankless effort, begun to pay dividends. Since Sally was the only member of the group who would acknowledge Yap's existence, the little gnome dogged her every step, chattering excitedly. The senator complained that he was dogged all week by opponents of the White House plan who dominated news coverage. Whenever the Democrat arrives in the Midwestern state, he is dogged by a volunteer from the rival campaign dressed as a giant ear of corn. He is dogged by the determined trio of regional leaders, who want to grab as much from the largest pie as possible. But again and again, he was dogged by scandals of his own making that made him as much of an embarrassment as an asset to the party he served. I'm looking for ways to tackle this constant state of feeling tired all the time, which has dogged me for years. It has dogged him all his life, and has, at different times, overwhelmed and almost broken him. As for the criticism which has dogged him all season he replied that as long as the manager believed in him he was happy. Loneliness, grief and despair dogged her at every turn, seemed to follow always in her wake, just out of sight. She said one of her hopes was complete recovery from the illness that has dogged her. Show More Sentences Pavel led the league in goals for the second straight year with 59, even though he dogged it for long portions of the schedule. He has dogged it by refusing to debate his ready opponent on the Seven Network this Sunday evening. There was a muted boom as the Captain closed and dogged the ships inner lock shut behind us. The hatch closed, they dogged it, and checked to make sure everyone was in the seats lining the walls. He symbolises great tolerance, and dogged persistence in the face of adversity. But at the moment the City's whisperers are asking whether the LSE is about to return to the bad old days when it was dogged by controversy. Reilly's story, one of loyalty, brotherhood, and dogged determination, captures and holds the reader's attention. Now finally clear of injury woes, the Spaniard has been dogged by ongoing back problems. The development will be seen as evidence of the wretched luck which has dogged the Holyrood project. Cast bronze was now his favoured material and a growing sense of blandness and reiteration dogged his later career. The Civil Commissioners acted with resolution, but they were dogged by the problem of the ultimate legitimacy of their acts. He overcame the initial seam movement, two perilously close lbw appeals and a few edgy moments before settling down into a dogged mode. After two dogged weeks I've finally given up, switching to much lighter aqueous cream instead. The other topic that has dogged athletics, as it has so many sports in recent years, is drugs. The persistence, the dogged attention, the caring were what counted. When the dogged Singer proved that his source was lying, he wrote a different kind of book. The system was supposed to replace the box-ticking, legalistic approach that dogged predecessors with a more flexible approach based on high-level principles. However, the internet retailer has been dogged by claims that it left some customers without Christmas presents after failing to deliver orders on time. Calm, unflustered and a mix of dogged compiler and thrusting dasher. I asked an astute hockey observer about the player, whom even a casual looker-on like me recognizes as a skilled player, himself dogged by clutchers and grabbers. Show More Sentences One tournament win doesn't inspire confidence but his play this week has been exceptional, a total contrast to the self-doubt that dogged him in recent times. Scotland's major task in the coming decades will be to outgrow the stultifying mentality of negativism and inferiority that has dogged the nation since the second world war. With dogged perseverance and considerable luck, the author, Alexander Haley, traced his ancestry back through seven generations to a Mandingo village in Africa. Peter was a voracious reader, a tireless networker, intrepid and fearless at approaching the biggest names, and dogged in working with authors to finish their manuscripts. There is no logic in this, of course, just as there is no logic in my dogged loyalty to the name Heinz when purchasing either tomato ketchup or baked beans. The British Foreign Office was advising travellers to avoid the country while the stretch from Bam to Pakistan was dogged with marauding gangs of bandits. He obviously hoped to repeat his success with another trip, but the second cruise was dogged by bad weather and did not provide enough material for a book. In a performance full of skill, passion and dogged determination the men in red and black ensured that the Mayo League crown became the latest resident of the ancient barony. They negotiated their gold ransom for the kidnapped Freia with all the dogged, gormless determination of a ticket collector extracting an excess fare. These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition. However, some very changeable conditions dogged the first race of the Scottish Flying Fifteen Championships' 25-strong fleet at Loch Earn yesterday. There's no drive or energy here, just a sense of dogged persistence. While abuse of a sexual nature is new for the principal, accusations of physical abuse have long dogged the school. They negotiated their gold ransom for the kidnapped girl with all the dogged, gormless determination of a ticket collector extracting an excess fare. Although he was acquitted in 1991, the incident has dogged him ever since. Sometimes we make our achievements possible not by brilliance or talent but by the sheer, dogged determination that leads us to get up each day and try again. He is a raconteur extraordinaire and an interview with the dogged reporter can rapidly turn into a delicious gabfest. She was dogged in her condemnation of those who went too far too soon. A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site. But the District Judge, sitting at Dewsbury Magistrates Court, told the defendant that his dogged pursuance of the case had wasted a lot of taxpayers' money. Show More Sentences From August on, the German companies will have to fight for customers against a dogged rival that has already proven it can beat them in the U.S. market. I have to admit that this issue has dogged me most of this week. If a car looks dogged and tired, but the odometer is only showing an average mileage then it is likely that the vehicle in question has been clocked. After umpteen prosecutions for failing to display a UK motor tax disc, the authorities were worn down by his dogged challenging of their authority to levy tax. Accurately planning Chick-fil-A stops on a road trip requires dogged practice. There were more clashes with the coach after his trade to the Nuggets, including an accusation that he dogged it through his first season in Denver. In the night attack he seems to have displayed some courage and resolution, but was dogged by ill luck and the inexperience of himself and his men. The crackdown on long waits has been dogged by allegations that ambulance staff are deliberately delaying taking patients into casualty until the hospital is ready for them. His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession. Figuring how to train Iraqi forces has dogged the United States since the 2003 invasion. Allegations of sexual misconduct have dogged Carl DeMaio since he entered politics. To say Nelson has been dogged by controversies since he was chief of Roseau River First Nation is an understatement. During the 18th century, London was dogged by crime, and the Bow Street Runners were established in 1750 as a professional police force. Early in his service, Nelson discovered that he suffered from seasickness, a chronic complaint that dogged him for the rest of his life. She keeps the scene light, but her nonrecreational drug use adds a dogged, truth-seeking vibe to her latest project. Giles, England's spin bowler and dogged batsman and a Warwickshire County Cricket Club player, is raising cash for the Cure Leukaemia charity. In the 19th century, the hat-making profession was dogged by mental illness caused by the use of the toxic chemical mercurous nitrate. John McCormack has been the dogged fly in the ointment here. At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected. Identity issues seem to have dogged Otis since his troubles began. Show More Sentences Pietersen's century, his 23rd for England, was untypically dogged, spanning 312 minutes and 206 balls. He has been dogged by accusations that he is a chucker for years because of a genetic defect which prevents him fully straightening his arm. Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks. The team had also resolved the reliability problems that had dogged them the previous year. And since the British period, the reputation of a common prostitute has dogged the heels of the tawaif. Wicketkeepers are normally dogged by broken fingers and the other injuries which come from standing up to the stumps and batting. But last year it was dogged by manic behaviour from desperate shoppers trying to outmuscle fellow bargain hunters. Maybe the home side was narked by the dogged last-wicket stand between Clarke and Boyd Rankin which expited the monumental moment. But his bag man Damon Green insisted he is a different animal on the golf course after his dogged, determined style saw him bring home a second Major. There were echoes the Poll Tax riots which dogged the Thatcher years. This may have signaled a change in fortunes in Welsh rugby but underneath the same problems that dogged Wales throughout the 1920s still remained. Fennelly was dogged by back problems again this year, with the added discomfort of osteitis pubis in his groin, but soldiered through another successful campaign for the Cats. The well-travelled 31-year-old toyed with calling time on his career when a shoulder injury picked up as a singles player persistently dogged him. Robbie Regan, the WBO bantamweight champion, who has been dogged by illness for more than a year, is now hopeful of regaining fitness by the autumn. Thanks to dogged batting and at least four umpiring decisions in their favour on the third day, they finished 96 runs behind with eight wickets of their first innings intact. Clarkey gave his a big larrup and comfortably cleared the lake surrounding the green, and me, with a power fade that had dogged me all day, followed suit. Dogged by a corruption inquiry, he appears to have been dumped by the party hierarchy. Examples from Classical Literature Nevertheless, with a dogged persistency unusual to our Gallic neighbours, they continued to fight with unquelled vigour. She knew this, and was resolved by caution to overreach those who dogged her so closely. But a glance would suffice to show that he now sitting there is not a member of that dogged and pachydermatous race. As it was, she drove him to a dogged pursuit of the man he was convinced was the real culprit. Not dogged, trapped, made desperate by fate, but cheerfully and of his own free will. Misfortune seemed to have dogged his footsteps ever since his transference from the Navy proper into the flying wing. Rather, it was that dogged courage that never even permits a suggestion of give-up to enter the mind of the fighter. The dogged booming of a gun from a shore battery sounded lonely and remote as a bell buoy. They were such eyes as could be dogged and stern as flint or deep and bafflingly gentle like mossy waters. He was taunted and barked at and dogged so constantly that no lethean waters could wash out the maddening memory. Only her life insurance policy and her dogged persistence had saved the day. The fiery spirit of the Gael and the dogged endurance of the Lowlander had added new glory to the fighting fame of Scotland. Perrichon's dogged and undiscouraged attachment to the young man whom he had pulled out of the glacier. There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling. In a dogged way he repelled them, signing to them to go on and leave him alone. Similar issues have dogged Amy Neustein, a leading activist on behalf of mothers penalized for abuse accusations. Never was there such a census, and it could have been taken by no other people than the dogged, patient, patriotic Japanese. Prior to Paris there was a siege mentality, which was probably just what was needed to deliver such a gutsy, cussedly dogged triumph. The dogged dourness of Killie which has been mopping up the opposition lately seemed to evaporate in the Rugby Park sun. It ain't what I implicate, it's what Gaffer implicated,' was the dogged and determined answer. Show More Sentences To-night he told me he has dogged us everywhere since we left Kinross. It made a dogged, desperate resistance and was almost unbeatable. But their former double-wide has dogged them ever since with tax liens, soiled credit and the destruction of their dream-home dream. Lifers succeed through dogged determination, usually rising slowly through the ranks of public or private institutions. The steward dogged my footsteps and waylaid me, and, by Jove! His mood transmuted itself into a dogged indifference till at length he fancied he was looking on his own existence with the passive interest of an outsider. I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he, a dogged silence. Nothing could equal the chagrin of Fitzpatrick and Bridger at being dogged by their inexperienced rivals, especially after their offer to divide the country with them. Keith Earls set a new Ireland record with his eighth World Cup try but they could not pull away, hounded at every turn by the dogged and fiercely physical Italians. Keith Earls set a new Ireland record with his eighth World Cup try, but Ireland could not pull away, hounded at every turn by the dogged and fiercely physical Italians. But they kept on with dogged patience, through many hardships. Dogged and wolfish as he was, the man knew his master, and was cowed. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of dogged? Words that rhyme with dogged What is the adverb for dogged? What is the adjective for dogged? What is the noun for dogged? Translations for dogged Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words dog-friendly dogfish dogfights dogfighting dog-fight dogfight doggedly doggedness dogged persistence dogger doggerel Doggerland 6-letter Words Starting With d do dog dogg dogge