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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
untiring
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Gonzales has been an untiring fighter for democracy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A deceptively fragile and refined appearance belied her dedication and untiring industry in the cause of justice for women.
▪ Cardinal Basil Hume is untiring in his reminder that 12 million children under five die every year from hunger and disease.
▪ His general attitude is one of an untiring and immense courtesy and helpfulness.
▪ She was an untiring worker in the Medau cause, and is much missed.
Wiktionary
untiring

a. 1 Not able to be tired; inexhaustible. 2 Unfailing; resolute.

WordNet
untiring

adj. characterized by hard work and perseverance [syn: hardworking, industrious, tireless]

Usage examples of "untiring".

But the most gratifying aspect of her untiring efforts is the tremendous sale of Anarchist literature, whose propagandist effect cannot be estimated.

But the untiring critic within has winnowed, reassorted, and disposed the material I needed.

It should also be recorded that although the Ninth United States Volunteers was composed of persons who were classed as immune, and had come chiefly from Louisiana, and notwithstanding that the officers of the regiment above lieutenants were white men, and the colonel an officer of the Regular Army of long experience, and was specially praised by so good a sanitarian as General Wood for having been, constant and untiring in his efforts to look after the welfare of his men, and that the surgeons of the regiment were white men, that deaths among the colored men numbered one officer and seventy-three enlisted men.

Of low stature, brown hair, eyes hazelnut color, and eyeglasses with metal frame, the assistant of direction of thirty and five years had a studious appearance that hid to an enormous sense of humor and an untiring energy.

It may not be well known that De Candolle, the celebrated and untiring Genevese botanist, made use, in a course of lectures, of a valuable collection of tropical American plants, intrusted to his care by a Spanish botanist.

The air of Sorento gives an untiring appetite, and the supper soon disappeared.

He had also hoped to discover information about the lives his people had led before their move north which could help guide him in building a new lifeway in High Hallack, one acceptable to all their number, male and female alike, but he had not been able to unearth anything of significance despite all his efforts and the untiring assistance of his hosts, not then and not since.

Moreover, he did not choose to analyze the mystical reasons as to why he had been permitted by Fate or Chance to obtain such mastery over one human soul,--he preferred to attribute it all to his own discoveries in science,--his own patient and untiring skill,--his own studious comprehension of the forces of Nature,--and he was nearly, if not quite oblivious of the fact, that there is a Something behind natural forces, which knows and sees, controls and commands, and against which, if he places himself in opposition, Man is but the puniest, most wretched straw that was ever tossed or split by a whirlwind.

But it is not merely faeries who know untiring days, for there have been men and women who, falling under their enchantment, have attained, perhaps by the right of their God-given spirits, an even more than faery abundance of life and feeling.

It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs.

These androids, with untiring skill, set about building auditoria in which the new population could observe all that happened on the far distant planet.

Her earnest desire to get religion and the untiring efforts of the exhorters had alike proved futile.

Sasha, the broad-shouldered, the cunning, the ready, the untiring companion of his master, secretly ordered a cask of vodki to follow the crowd of hunters and serfs.

It is the mechanism of the materialisation medium which has been explored by the acute brain and untiring industry of Doctor Geley, and even presuming, as one may fairly presume, that every materialising medium goes through the same process in order to produce results, still such mediums are exceedingly, rare.

The journals of all Europe were untiring in their praises of the bold explorers, and the Daily Telegraph struck off an edition of three hundred and seventy-seven thousand copies on the day when it published a sketch of the trip.