Persisting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERSISTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• PERSIST, to continue resolutely
• continue in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
• continue to exist; be prolonged
ADJECTIVE:
• Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.
• relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to continue resolutely in some activity

Words related to PERSISTING

persist9 persisted12 persistingly18 persists10

Words that contain PERSISTING

persistingly18

How to use PERSISTING in a sentence

• I give the Commandant full marks for not persisting in his refusal.
• This the man himself, after two public notices, admits and involves in the very act of persisting.
• But he had obstinately refused to take a servant, persisting in waiting on his customers himself, holding on by the furniture.
• For a man holding such a position to make such a statement at that moment, is all the corroboration that we need for persisting in our policy of reform.
• This last Consideration, forsooth, of injuring her in persisting, made him resolve to break off upon the first favourable Opportunity of making her angry.
• The latter at first declined to believe in it, but, Conolly persisting in his story, steps were taken to strengthen the defences.
• It did not seem quite modest in her to continue persisting.
• Here, besides being half seasick, I was placed at the mercy of many voracious fleas, who obstinately stayed, persisting in keeping me company.
• In each case it was a human brute persisting in a course of hostility to a man of benevolent character, and suddenly and terribly cut off in the midst of his career.
• If you do not know it, you are inexcusable for asserting it, and especially for persisting in the assertion after you have tried and failed to make the proof.
• Her counsel had an interview with her previous to the trial, to satisfy themselves of her good faith, and she was quite resolute and earnest, persisting in every statement.
• And yet persisting in behaving badly, Do what one will, does commonly end sadly.
• Miss Herbey persisting to the last in retaining her post by her side.
• His persisting in finishing those two portraits, at the time when his eyes first began to fail, was the real cause of all the bad symptoms that we have had to combat ever since.
• Whatever the cause of a war may be, the hope of success is the only possible motive for persisting in it.
• Kear was laid in the whale-boat that hung from the stern, Miss Herbey persisting to the last in retaining her post by her side.
• Lovejoy for persisting in his right to print an antislavery newspaper at Alton.
• It typified the dauntless effort of man, never flagging, never broken, persisting to its goal.
• They have persisted and are still persisting in those efforts.
• Persisting in his refusal to serve on the committee, he was, by order of the speaker, taken into custody by the serjeant-at-arms, and confined to a chamber within the precincts.
• The mode of onset of the persisting symptoms, whether immediately following the supposed accident or delayed in their occurrence, is to be noted.
• When once it had taken on that character, no possible degree of unpopularity or odium could have prevented him from persisting in his course.
• Injustice consists in knowing what is wrong, and persisting in doing it.
• Graham was persisting in sitting with her heavy coat on while she ate her luncheon, although our table was next to the big, old fireplace, in which a good fire was burning.
• He pressed me much to go with him, and grew angry at my persisting to refuse his request.
• Persisting, however, in her inquiries, she pressed Thorgunna to take up her abode at the house of Thorodd.
• Murdock is not tired because he does not tire when he is hoping that he will not be completing not finding that which he is not persisting in expecting.
• It would sadly distress some powder if looking out was continual and sitting first was happening and leaving first was persisting.
• If persisting was what one of them was doing, hesitating was what that one was doing.
• And persisting in his agitation of the slave question they undertook to destroy his press.

Similar words containing PERSIST without suffix ing

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