How to Use dogged in a Sentence

dogged

adjective

• Her dogged efforts eventually paid off.
• 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
• Those deficits can be offset, to a degree, with dogged study and hard work.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 7 June 2018
• This is the culmination of a lot of hard work and the dogged pursuit by Lt.
  — Fox News, 15 June 2019
• 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
• Chris Cuomo is a dogged interviewer who has a command of the facts and is hard to spin.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 11 Jan. 2018
• 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
• In his dogged pursuit of second place late in the race, Sato hit a small ditch in the track, let his wheel drop into the grass and lost control of his car.
  — Jim Ayello, USA TODAY Sports, 24 June 2017
• It was found only after a dogged shipwreck hunter kept up the painstaking hunt.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
• 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
• But one goal kept Cavendish coming back to the sport in lieu of the losses and heartache: his dogged pursuit of the Tour de France’s record for most stage victories.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 3 July 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
• For all its problems, the Census Bureau has mounted a dogged effort in recent days to fill in some of the count’s many gaps.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
• 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
• As the dogged Aloysius, Amy Ryan is a commanding presence in her steadfast pursuit of the truth.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• What is clear in season 4, is that the monarch is embarking on a new era that will be rife with dogged tabloid coverage.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The publisher was, too: The young, dogged reporter had created the newspaper, made 18 copies and sold them to friends for 2 cents a pop.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• Radulov’s third assist came after a dogged effort to retrieve the puck in the offensive zone set up Jamie Benn.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2021
• 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
• The release of these records demonstrates the power of dogged reporting done in the service of truth and in the public interest.
  — Miami Herald, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
• Yancy has a dogged commitment to the truth and a total lack of self-preservation instincts, which impresses and irritates his friend and former partner Rogelio (John Ortiz).
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile, a dogged detective (Debra Messing, going against type with a hefty dramatic performance) assists in his efforts.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024