Sentence Examples

1. The thatched house had been creaking from the force of the persistently growing storm, and Helkena was frightened and wanted to talk to her father.
2. The science of our time has attacked but a little department of the field of human disease, but, even so, it spreads its operations very steadily and persistently.
3. It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage.
4. It persistently resisted his every attempt to humanize it a little, even if he accommo-dated its every whim.
5. As he stood persistently before his vision, he gave vent to a cry of sharp irritation and agony.
6. Separate himself from the man whom he had so persistently followed step by step!
7. When she persistently protests with her little punches, I scoop her small figure into my arms and impatiently deposit her into the passenger seat.
8. I looked at my station to try to discover the source of it, and saw a red blip on the engineering monitor, blinking away and beeping persistently.
9. The thought rose to the top of my mind, persistently.
10. He turned to see a short elderly woman with a walker jabbing him persistently.