How to Use dogged in a Sentence

dogged

adjective

• Her dogged efforts eventually paid off.
• This is the culmination of a lot of hard work and the dogged pursuit by Lt.
  — Fox News, 15 June 2019
• Despite their dogged portal pursuit, the Trojans still didn’t have a starting point guard.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
• Some of the difficulties may lie in a coaching staff that skews older and is not known as dogged recruiters, Biggins said.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• Connolly’s death remained in the public eye for 40 years, largely due to the dogged efforts of her mother.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2019
• The scarier idea, though, is that there are more Duntsches running around, unencumbered by lawsuits and a dogged reporter.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• Now is just time to see whether his dogged attitude will translate to extended minutes on the pitch; or whether Zidane will place him on the short lead once again.
  — SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• To hear the players talk afterward, the result seemed to be an unintentional consequence of their dogged sense of mission.
  — Jerry Brewer, The Denver Post, 4 July 2019
• Casemiro as the dogged enforcer, Kroos as the metronome and Modric as the creative genius, all three of these players will need to be on top form this season.
  — SI.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• In the end, Kurt Busch claimed the most important stage and bragging rights with a dogged run on the top side to spark a wild celebration and burnout on the frontstretch.
  — Gary B. Graves, baltimoresun.com, 14 July 2019
• In the end, Kurt Busch claimed the most important stage and bragging rights with a dogged run on the top side to spark a wild celebration and burnout on the front stretch.
  — Gary B Graves, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2019
• The expectations for their dogged team progressed without hesitation.
  — Deesha Thosar, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Maigret studies Pietr’s techniques of character creation with a dogged intensity.
  — Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The locus of resistance is expected to be the Kashmir valley, home to about seven million people, to a small but dogged insurgency and to a lot of resentment.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• Bernardo Silva wrapped up the scoring minutes after coming on, as the Citizens ran out comfortable winners against a dogged Brighton side.
  — SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• The locus of resistance is expected to be in the Kashmir valley, home to about 7 million people, where a small but dogged insurgency and a lot of resentment exist.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman and, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Credit Brad Marchand with a dogged forecheck to keep the play alive.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
• And now its namesake lives on, thanks to the dogged work of a shipbuilding team.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• Lendino was one of the top dogs in a dogged effort by the Wildcats on Friday night.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
• The judge has been praised for his dogged campaign to rein in the outgoing far-right leader.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
• Poe saw writing less as the work of the sudden genius and more the work of the careful, dogged scientist.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
• Rich bad guys, often of the Russian kind, loathe him for his dogged reporting on the sources of their wealth.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 22 July 2022
• The going was a bit dogged, as the path was rocky, relatively steep, and often wet.
  — Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2021
• Greenfield has proven to be a dogged fundraiser herself.
  — Thomas Beaumont, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• My mom’s clinic happened to have a supply of about 60 test kits after dogged requests to the lab.
  — Akilah Johnson, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2020
• It was found only after a dogged shipwreck hunter kept up the painstaking hunt.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
• The knives were out with players leaking to the Australian cricket press and the renowned stubborn Langer went on the back foot much like his dogged batting.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Some of those who did show up seemed to have done so out of a dogged sense of responsibility.
  — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• But even Allen, a dogged, determined recruiter, had to find a balance.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2020
• There, Blanche, 49, built a reputation as a dogged advocate for his clients – and for his defense of some Trump associates.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024