Sentence examples for had tenacious from inspiring English sources

Even on wet pavement, the Darts I drove had tenacious grip.

Both had tenacious clients who took obvious pleasure bidding in unconventional increments — at one moment $100,000, at another $250,000 — so that the salesroom booed and hissed, applauded and laughed as Christopher Burge, the evening's auctioneer, deftly jollied the two along (although at times he showed his impatience).

"The fact that the child lived showed that he has tenacious vitality".

Some species have tenacious rhizomes (underground stems) or stolons and are important soil binders.

They are young leaders and both have tenacious, outgoing and charming personalities.

I want to and need to believe there was an insanely tall ruckman for the Pies back then; he was Wes Fellowes and he had a tenacious tackling style as well as tenacious rocker hair cut.

For all that, he had devoted, tenacious friends.

He appeared to be mindful that insurgent combatants in the Afghan war had proved tenacious.

"We had as tenacious a defense in the first half as I had seen all year," Adubato said.

The show had a tenacious quality, rather, in fact, like a shark — one of the sea creatures that served as a reference.

Writer tells about Blind tom, an African-American autistic musical prodigy of the 19th century, as well as about Jedediah Buxton, a simpleminded laborer who had a tenacious memory.