How to Use tenacious in a Sentence

tenacious

adjective

• The company has a tenacious hold on the market.
• The 6-foot-10 Reuvers is skilled and tenacious but his lack of strength/bulk took its toll.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2018
• When is a time that being tenacious has bit you in the ass?
  — Justine Harman, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2018
• The sky had turned a tenacious gray, the rain sheeting sideways.
  — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• The weeds growing up the side of that bus shelter were tenacious.
  — Ali Smith, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The Howard home, though built to be unique and beautiful, was tenacious, too.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 Mar. 2021
• Fenway never gave up the lead, though, and used tenacious defense to set the tone.
  — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• Her memory, in the hearts of all who knew her, will be even more tenacious.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
• Jake Hedberg is the glue of our team and a tenacious defender.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2021
• In their favor, the slippery-road traction of the new tires is much more tenacious.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 9 Feb. 2023
• His long wingspan and tenacious defense is what Richmond Heights will miss most the rest of the way.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2021
• Ceren, 28, is known as a tenacious player who covers a lot of ground.
  — Corey Roepken, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
• The Bulls have overcome a lack of size through a tenacious defense led by Ball and Caruso.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022
• But the tenacious Angela doesn’t give up, even when her job may be in jeopardy.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• Christine Sinclair pulled one back in the 30th minute, and Sophia Smith scored a tenacious equalizer for the Thorns in the 57th minute.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2021
• The restaurant doesn’t even have a website, so only the most tenacious make their way here.
  — Paul Oswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
• When put on the defensive, just about any bear is tenacious—but so are tigers.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024
• Both Balash and Davis mentioned West’s tenacious effort to keep the game in reach.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022
• In the past, when faced with a tenacious new competitor, Facebook might have tried to buy it out.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
• One of the reasons why Houston is good on the road is because of their tenacious defense.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | , al, 18 Mar. 2023
• Neither of his leads in the Boston heist is new, but the tenacious sleuth hopes the bigger reward will help.
  — Mike Corder, The Seattle Times, 27 June 2017
• It had been cut down to a few knotty stumps, but a bundle of tenacious shoots was erupting out of it.
  — Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
• But Hamid, or a slender but tenacious shadow of the guy Hamid used to be, somehow does not.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 May 2024
• By then, Lowe was the tenacious survivor of a game in which most contestants get thrown off the island.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• There’s the tenacious drive of a high school dropout, never caving to the work world’s long hours or lingering lessons.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 May 2018
• The tenacious king salmon will likely be coming back for many, many autumns to come.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2021
• Beard’s success at Tech was built on tenacious man-to-man defense.
  — Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2022
• But less than a month later, the tenacious 94-year-old was back to teaching Sunday school.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2019
• There are so many ways, big and small, so always persevere and stay tenacious.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024
• Matthew has always been intensely focused and tenacious in all of his endeavors – not only in his recording career, but in all of his artistic and intellectual pursuits.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024