Painstakingly careful

Usage examples of thorough.

After a thorough cleansing of the vaginal surfaces of mucus, by means of the warm or hot water, it is sometimes advisable to inject remedial fluids.

But no one had a more thorough grasp of every aspect of astronautics and microgravity science than he, and in the end that counted more than his relative lack of flight hours.

He took thorough care, and finally encountered a hoof-trodden patch of bared ice.

After a thorough brainwashing conducted by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations representative, A.

For many years our specialists have experimented, and have given the various appliances in common use in these cases most thorough and practical tests, and have found them very defective, being generally constructed upon wrong principles.

Miss Mannering herself walked into the morning room, trailed by the faithful Caliban, both of them greatly improved in appearance by thorough scrubbings.

Either way he would look after her until the Moonraker was safely fired and then, before work began on the Mark II weapon, there would have to be a very thorough clean-up indeed.

He laughed so genuinely and with such thorough enjoyment that Portia, somewhat abashed, laughed too.

The responsibilities were overwhelming despite his thorough prenticeship, and his workload was staggering.

Criminal profiling will never take the place of a thorough and wellplanned investigation nor will it ever eliminate the seasoned, highly trained, and skilled detective.

A Republican, Fiske was highly regarded as a thorough and fair-minded lawyer with prosecutorial experience.

As a matter of fact, he never had gotten a thorough look at Punning Parker.

There was an Invigilator among them who, while not quite as thorough in pursuit as a Pursuivant might be, was nonetheless to be reckoned with.

That most charming mixture of dignified self respect, with unfailing gracious courtesy to others, those manners in which frankness and refinement mingled with and set off each other, that perfect purity of thought and utterance, and yet that thorough enjoyment of all that was good and racy in wit or humour - this has passed away with him.

She stood up, leaned back on her hind feet, dug her foreclaws into the ground well in front of her, gave her vertebrae a thorough stretching, then recompacted herself and walked casually toward the Giants, her tail carried like a tall exclamation point over the round dot beneath.