How to Use assiduous in a Sentence

assiduous

adjective
  • They were assiduous in their search for all the latest facts and figures.
  • The project required some assiduous planning.
  • Be assiduous in your basting until the top of the fish turns opaque.
    Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • In such a situation, even the most assiduous travellers will always press on to some kind of home.
    Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Like all good emo, the record was beloved by the most assiduous arbiters of feeling—teenagers, who embraced the band’s earnest yet playful approach to youthful angst.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • But Luisi and the orchestra gave it assiduous attention, and in an age of so much assaultive new music, a dreamy escape was welcome.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
  • In the meantime, Geelhood and Klotz maintained their assiduous vigil.
    Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
  • There was much talk beforehand about the Democrats’ ardent desire and assiduous efforts to project unity.
    Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • But the players maintained their assiduous fire, plugged into the alternating current of past and present.
    Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • After about a century of assiduous dam-building, the United States has gotten out of the construction business and moved to dam-removal.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • Digitally savvy Ukrainians have been assiduous in their fight to bring Russians to justice for war crimes.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2022
  • And although the stones used are not actually modified for the task, monkeys are assiduous in searching for and selecting those of the perfect shape.
    The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Leray’s bounce-back is a testament to her assiduous work ethic.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The restaurant features a wide-open kitchen surrounded by wooden counters on three sides, where a brigade of assiduous chefs with white caps work in assembly-line fashion.
    Melinda Joe, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Knowledgeable and assiduous consumers are the impetus needed to push the tipping point.
    Michelle Williams, Forbes, 20 May 2022
  • Her plight is known only to the most assiduous of historians, but the original authors of the current resolution that would clear Johnson’s name is a group of 13- and 14-year-olds.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The parents' tender, assiduous care is moving to witness.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2020
  • This means that the assiduous use of insect repellent as well as frequent tick checks will make a huge difference in preventing disease.
    Dipesh Navsaria, Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2018
  • After all the assiduous downplaying of terrorism fears, why are the media up-playing mass-shooting fears?
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • There may be no physical evidence that your house has a tendency to flood, owing to your assiduous rehab work.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • By the same token, out-of-favor fads can suddenly, and without warning, make it into the limelight, surprising even the most assiduous trend-watchers.
    Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
  • The only way to find anything is by searching hashtags, which means that countless posts on the site are little more than agglomerations of hashtags and the assiduous spammers who take advantage of them.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Besides, Mr Moon is an assiduous supporter of UN sanctions.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Those who knew her describe Mackie as a vibrant and assiduous person — someone who struggled but was loving and optimistic and did her best to overcome the formidable forces that tried to hold her back.
    Annie Hylton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The number of positive tests among players remains low; the testing regimen is thorough and assiduous.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Manivel constructs this half-hour segment as as a kind of fly-on-the-wall documentary, emphasizing the warm and productive bond between patient tutor and her assiduous student.
    Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Now that Amy is immune compromised, her parents are assiduous about maintaining a clean environment for her.
    Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Journalists and public health messengers must also be assiduous in making sure that their headlines and reporting are strictly fact-based.
    Rita Numerof, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The club’s owners, meanwhile, have been assiduous in reiterating their ongoing faith in the 47-year-old Potter, but there comes a point where the frequency of those reassurances is itself reflective of a problem.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • China’s censors, usually assiduous about controlling the flow of information on the internet, appear to have done little or nothing to stop the claims of restrictions, first reported in The Wall Street Journal.
    Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023

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