Sentence examples for surprisingly tenacious from inspiring English sources

They can be surprisingly tenacious in action.

The compact disc has proved surprisingly tenacious.

Research conducted in 2007 [6] paints a pretty strange, and surprisingly tenacious, set of borders across Western Europe.

The test car's four 195/50R16 Kumho Solus KH25 all-season tires proved surprisingly tenacious during cornering despite being of the economy-oriented low-rolling-resistance variety.

Dismissed last year as the token nutjob in the line-up of Republican presidential candidates, his insurgent campaign proved surprisingly tenacious.

The scene was typical of what the northern front in the war in Iraq has become: a cat-and-mouse game between small American Special Operations units and a group of Iraqi commanders who are proving to be surprisingly tenacious.

As Clare wrote all too accurately, the surprisingly nimble, tenacious badger was more than a match for several dogs but not a whole village, and was eventually "kicked and torn" to death.

Rigid bronchoscopy was performed, and surprisingly, a complete tenacious bronchial cast was removed.

Undeterred by the noise and the hoopla, the sixth-ranked Blue Devils combined tenacious defense and surprisingly good shooting to rout the fifth-ranked Spartans, 72-50.

Although the champions increased the tempo in the second half they remained surprisingly sluggish in midfield, where normally their football is at its most tenacious.

Tour allure: Enjoy Cornell's 'garden of weedin" [Cornell Chronicle 2013-06-11] – The Cornell Weed Garden is a scientific utopia that features 85 of the Northeast's most tenacious, loathsome and frustrating plants known to farmers and home gardeners, but sometimes surprisingly tasty to naturalists.