| His conversion was much more gradual, taking root slowly but tenaciously in a nature avid for the life of faith. |
| He was four meters above the floor, clinging tenaciously to a folded arm of the landing gear extender. |
| They were always careful not to saw away the branch upon which their own livelihood was precariously, if tenaciously, hanging. |
| Those who remain cling tenaciously to what their forebears laid down, but retreat into the shade. |
| Those who tenaciously stuck till the tail end of the festival were regaled by an unexpected treat. |
| The attack was ground down by small pockets of well hidden paratroopers who fought tenaciously. |
