| Aristotle was an industrious collector who amassed a prodigious quantity of information on a vast variety of topics. |
| She was resourceful, industrious and an extremely skilful and creative cook and homemaker. |
| He was a good and industrious workman in the shop, but both he and his wife were grossly intemperate at home. |
| We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, and the industrious ant, a sluggard. |
| From inside the bedroom there came the sounds of industrious clearing up and the sound of water sluicing into a large tub filled the antechamber. |
| I call Mark as both of us love to watch the industrious little blighters at work. |
