Tenaciously is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENACIOUSLY in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• TENACIOUS, holding on
• with a firm hold of something; closely
• in a determined or unwavering manner
• with obstinate determination
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not easily pulled apart; cohesive; tending to adhere or cling especially to another substance

Words related to TENACIOUSLY

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How to use TENACIOUSLY in a sentence

• He fought as tenaciously as the ant which bites when it knows that it is going to be crushed, as does the fly which looks into space only through a pane of glass.
• Instinctively the young woman gripped the long skirt as it slipped through her hands, and held it tenaciously, though too frightened for an instant to do more.
• They find that the first image they have acquired of any scene is apt to hold its place tenaciously in spite of subsequent need of correction.
• The more senseless and abominable any of its corruptions were, the more tenaciously did pope and cardinals cling to them.
• Still, it is better to defy modern tendencies and even to pain the architect than that the faithful house-keeper who clings tenaciously to the old idea should be made miserable.
• The speed of their fall took their breath away and both instinctively grasped the sides of the car and clung to it tenaciously.
• Set all thy hope in God, and cleave tenaciously to His unfailing mercy.
• Guizot has written two or three works, but they have not had a marked success, and only prove that he clings tenaciously to his old conservative opinions.
• Yet he held tenaciously to his attitude of proprietor of the water-hole.
• They are divided into various classes, each known by a distinctive title, and to each of which its respective members cling tenaciously.
• The Honley feast is one of the remaining relics of byegone times, and is tenaciously kept year by year throughout the parish as a holiday.
• They have held tenaciously to ancestral forms and imitations, and because of this there is variance, strife and altercation among them.
• It is now evident that the beliefs of these nations were superstitions, but in those times they held to them most tenaciously.
• Holding tenaciously to the former dawning point, they still remain in this position of deprivation.
• But, alas, we have turned away from that foundation, holding tenaciously to various dogmatic forms and blind imitation of ancestral beliefs.
• Therefore those who were attached and held tenaciously to the name Abraham were deprived when the Abrahamic virtues reappeared in Moses.
• Then it jumped high in the air, and once more began its furious race with this mysterious and horrible being that clung so tenaciously to his back.
• At another place ladders were put up at all the windows, and men crowded upon them, and tenaciously held their uncomfortable positions through the whole meeting.
• All the same he clings more tenaciously than ever to the celebration of March 17.
• Jeannette was tenaciously fond of the gray old city of Quebec, but home to her was to be near that Highland officer.
• Assuredly, the outward seeming of youth was not there, but its suggestion still lingered tenaciously in the spirit which glowed through the worn husk.
• Already he could stick tenaciously on the back of a racing mustang and with his little bow he could place arrow after arrow in the center of the target.
• Comstock got a lot of smoking tobacco and held to it tenaciously, refusing to divide.
• Tenaciously the Southerners clung to the supremacy they had inherited from a bygone age.
• Men ragged and famished clutched tenaciously at whatever came in their way, whether of clothing or food, of luxury or necessity.
• The Montenegrins, in the shelter of their trenches, fought stubbornly and tenaciously.
• For that reason they cling so tenaciously to all their old foolish ways and notions, which have everywhere else fallen into disuse.
• For five hours now of reckless riding, of storm and privation, through death and disaster, the girl had clung tenaciously to her books and papers.
• Some of the passages clung tenaciously to his memory, and he fell asleep repeating them.
• The position was soon made good, although the Boers held on tenaciously to a long rocky ridge in their rear to which they had retired, till nightfall.
• It may have been merely a whim on her part, but she held tenaciously to her belief, acted in accordance with it, and no one could dissuade her from it.
• It is a vulgar, but still a useful help towards contempt of death, to pass in review those who have tenaciously stuck to life.

Similar words containing TENACIOUS without suffix ly

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