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How to use pertinacity in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pertinacity? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
If, in the face of these facts, somebody still insists that the boundaries of the Sikh religion are blurred, it is sheer pertinacity.
This was returned to Buckingham Palace in 1947, largely through the pertinacity of Queen Mary.
The claims of the Bishops to the xenium, were afterwards contested by the Monks with much pertinacity.
I want no greater proof of the corruption of human nature than the pertinacity with which we seek happiness where happiness cannot be found.
Nevertheless, as all municipal medical examiners can testify, such triumphs of pertinacity are anything but rare.
So her books are about the 20th century, with a kind of bite and pertinacity not many other writers have had.
He commanded a division on the French left wing at Waterloo and attacked with great pertinacity.
The gravity which Albert applied to court life in the south was applied with equal pertinacity to the serious business of recreation in the north.
There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defence in a moment of surprise.
The latter contended that the convention should be held in November, 1842, while the former urged with great pertinacity, and succeeded, that it should be postponed until May, 1844. The new Congress convene in December.
He possesses one quality which will ever ensure success, and that is a bull dog pertinacity and perseverance which renders him ignorant of the fact that he is ever whipped.
Avoiding the wooden spoon was their priority, not denying England the title, and they had hardly given up at the end against Ireland with Stuart Hogg denied a try by Jamie Heaslip's pertinacity.
As usual Lilburne contested every step with the greatest pertinacity.
Examples from Classical Literature
Then commenced the unconquerable power over her of those forebodings which have clung to her with such pertinacity ever since.
The pertinacity of the culicid frequently renders them a most formidable pest.
In no part of Scotland, indeed, has the belief in Fairies maintained its ground with more pertinacity than in selkirkshire.
Perth objected to changing his clothing with a pertinacity which provoked the boatswain.
Even Grace was disturbed and perplexed by her daughter's pertinacity.
These were four requisites, on which Marmaduke had insisted with a little more than his ordinary pertinacity.
It was wonderful to see the pertinacity with which the washerwoman from Tooting brought the cart every Saturday, and her bills week after week.
But that mild and meek man had a certain strength of pertinacity.
But the pertinacity of that brass-bound Paul Pry was astonishing.
Theirs was a callous, abominable, almost revolting, pertinacity.
By pertinacity and vanity in lying, she hit the mark at last.
It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
They had not then learned, as I am told, to haggle for bargains with the pertinacity which now distinguishes them.
I think I've shown that by my pertinacity in hunting you down.
They had not shown sufficient pertinacity in their inquiries.
The pertinacity of her friend seemed more than she could bear.
Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts, and James Naylor once suffered himself to be worshipped as the Christ.
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