Sentence examples for diligently playing from inspiring English sources

Brian, whom I met when I was 20, had seen me through it all, diligently playing the role of the tolerant, even-keeled boyfriend who did his best to understand.

In the West Bank, Hamas is currently subdued, with its armed men deep underground, its political leaders in Israeli jails and those representatives still at large in the local authorities diligently playing by Palestinian Authority rules.

Dorothy pursued much: she diligently played the flute, skied black diamond runs, sculpted life into stone, played a fierce net game in doubles tennis, made hollandaise sauce the old fashioned way and entertained with the grace of a bygone era.

Inevitably it doesn't matter if you diligently play by their elusive and incomprehensible rules while they hang the threat of raising your interest rate or destroying your credit over your head if you so much as sneeze or are five minutes late with a payment.

Upon arriving in Washington, Mrs. Clinton worked diligently to play down her celebrity.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of faithful Mormons in states across the country worked diligently against the E.R.A., playing a critical role in the amendment's eventual defeat.

But Washington also is playing more diligently within its system, not quite to the level it did last postseason but trending in that direction.

Despite the work's ubiquity, its placid opening never loses its hypnotic effect when played diligently.

The Guyanan played diligently and timed the ball well to score 88, before being bowled by Muralitharan, and his first Test century still eludes him.

Johnson and Smith have been working out diligently and Cavanaugh played in college and, at the least, can take most people at New York's Reebok Club off the dribble.

The departure of MGM from the bidding is a setback for Vivendi, which for several months has diligently tried to play bidders against one another.