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How to use persistently in a sentence

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Negotiating with them proved to be persistently frustrating for the English.
We will take action against those who are persistently truanting or who are late for school.
Police have promised to shut down off-licences and pubs that persistently flout the law by selling booze to under-age children.
If we persistently undershoot the target, it could eventually damage our credibility.
Angry shoppers have criticised the store as being persistently understocked, with basic items missing from the shelves.
Not only is this film persistently unfunny, but it is consistently uninvolving.
Fundi persistently approached the mound, but even little Gimli gave him a bop on the head when he attempted to join in the fishing.
To those who left the new church he had established he was persistently venomous.
Yet rather than looking at the persistently disadvantaged economic position they're in and getting uppity, women have fallen silent.
Having persistently higher cash prices than one's neighbors did not significantly impact profitability.
They say they appreciate having a dry place to work during persistently rainy periods.
He persistently maintains that he has changed his ways and his getting on with his life.
The 20th century, with its general contempt for the 'well-made' work, persistently misunderstood him.
He describes how the chains have persistently tried to kill off his profession, leading to declining projection quality in first-run theatres.
In one case each, the scar was persistently numb, hyperaesthetic or hypertrophic.
This would have brought an end to the frequent power outages that plagued the territory persistently last year.
He persistently locates race and racial identity within the social relations of production between groups.
The persistently high burden of diphtheria and whooping cough in the region reflects the poor ability of health systems to deliver vaccines.
That's probably bad news for the industry, which has blamed its billion dollar losses partially on persistently low airfares.
They were forbidden to hear Mass, forced instead to attend Anglican services, with steep fines for those recusants who persistently refused.
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The applause continued persistently, but, so at least it must have seemed to English ears, lethargically.
Among other things that moment with the Lettish girl haunted me persistently.
I wonder that, when the twig is so ruthlessly and persistently bent, the tree should reach up ever so crookedly towards heaven.
But too persistently and too long, altogether too long, had the trees been cut down and the manzanilla harvested.
In the month that followed Cromwell Biron pressed his suit persistently, unintimidated by Cecily's antagonism.
But the voice continued to haunt him persistently, besiegingly, despotically.
Tainting its title the sinister name of Moebus seemed to reoccur persistently in his confused imagination.
The breeze murmured more persistently, and anon with its dreamlike sound there mingled the frou-frou of a woman's skirts.
It's the peculiarity of English conservatism that it's persistently progressive and rejuvenescent.
The spahi stared at my cigar so persistently that I was obliged to offer him one.
In fact I know no play of this early date in which Shakespeare is so persistently imitated or plagiarised.
One cannot always be original and sparkling, and it is wiser not to try too persistently.
A vexatious delay occurred from the intractability of the mules, which persistently refused to allow themselves to be caught.
The French government had persistently refused to assist the States and possessory princes in the recovery of this stronghold.
We are persistently taught that we are animals and nothing more,let us therefore not be ashamed of animalism.
Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
Yet it is begging for food around the world and persistently demanding talks with its archenemy, America.
Why had this song been so persistently and continuously played?
Suddenly I saw beside me two wide open eyes scrutinising me curiously and persistently.
They lied transparently, but persistently, and when caught in one lie explained it away with half a dozen others.
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