Synonyms

1. application

Sentence Examples

1. Florence rewarded his brotherly diligence by deserting him to sit with the closest boy, whom her proximity clearly flustered.
2. The terrorism underworld required constant diligence to keep track of a variety of organizations.
3. In the meantime, he desired I would go on with my utmost diligence to learn their language, because he was more astonished at my capacity for speech and reason, than at the figure of my body, whether it were covered or no adding, that he waited with some impatience to hear the wonders which I promised to tell him.
4. A task carried out with abundant diligence, to the point that at times it resulted in excessive zeal, by the correction itself.
5. It would be impossible to make use of a diligence, equally so to engage post-horses to travel either way a passport was necessary.
6. When they have gone, my carriage shall come for you, and shall bear you to the Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to Bistritz.
7. The duke and duchess left him to repose and withdrew greatly grieved at the unfortunate result of the joke as they never thought the adventure would have fallen so heavy on Don Quixote or cost him so dear, for it cost him five days of confinement to his bed, during which he had another adventure, pleasanter than the late one, which his chronicler will not relate just now in order that he may turn his attention to Sancho Panza, who was proceeding with great diligence and drollery in his government.
8. The results attained by them are not unfrequently surprising, but, for the most part, are brought about by simple diligence and activity.
9. At three to-morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina a place on it is kept for you.
10. I therefore kept my three duns working with great diligence, pounding down ice around the central cask, and stirring the acid in the others.