What is "persistent"

Usage examples of "persistent".

An organization which more than any other has distinguished itself for persistent, unwearied, and vigorous attempts to secure reform by legal enactment is the Society for the Prevention of Abuse in Animal Experimentation, organized in Brooklyn, New York, in 1907.

There was a small but persistent trickle of broken-hearted lovers, both homophile and heterosexual.

He was beginning to feel logy, and a mild but persistent pain was gathering at his temples.

It was this habit of careful and persistent study that made it possible for Marconi to accomplish such wonderful things at an early age.

Let me represent to you the following: Dirk Pardee was forced into retirement due to persistent accounting irregularities in the various units he commanded.

I supposed that he was persisting in his efforts to create a female-if he is anything he is persistent.

Underlit by the phosphor pallor of the runes that channeled the thrust ef the lane tides, he slapped out a persistent, smoldering spark still raising smoke from his sleeve cuff.

From the hollow roof of the barn and from the thick velvet-like padding of dust over the ground outside, and from among the leaves of the few nearby trees and plants there came a vast, monotonous murmur that seemed to issue from all quarters of the horizon at once, a prolonged and subdued rustling sound, steady, even, persistent.

And all the while without stop, incessantly, inexorably, the wheat, as if moving with a force all its own, shot downward in a prolonged roar, persistent, steady, inevitable.

Wheat that continued to plunge incessantly from the iron chute in a prolonged roar, persistent, steady, inevitable.

Java, the high organization of the sporogonium makes it probable that the persistent protonema is an adaptation to the peculiar conditions of life.

Only the continuous moaning, and the persistent, repetitious attempts to restrain his arms and legs.

When Sanders became too persistent, he was reminded that the correspondence of people under a criminal charge was liable to censorship, but as far as Suzanne and Max Clair were concerned, the suggestion was grotesque.

The conversation became at once professional after the briefest preliminaries, and he would stand twirling a sweet-scented sprig in his fingers, and make suggestive jokes, perhaps about her faith in a too persistent course of thoroughwort elixir, in which my landlady professed such firm belief as sometimes to endanger the life and usefulness of worthy neighbors.

The trusted secret agent of the late Baron Stott-Wartenheim looked at her for a time with a heavy, persistent, undiscerning glance.