How to Use studious in a Sentence

studious

adjective
  • He made a studious effort to obey the rules.
  • The judges will be looking for studious and goofy kids on March 20 in the gym.
    High School Columnist, NOLA.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Thomas is known as one of the smartest and most studious defenders in the league.
    Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Willy and his boys ridicule Bernard for being a studious nerd.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • While the atmosphere on the set was studious, there wasn’t a hint of tension.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • David was always the most studious of all his brothers.
    Yerin Kim, Seventeen, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Every dorm has its character: the Dead Head, the studious one, the person with the pet snake.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
  • There is no sign that Pumphrey, a thoughtful, studious player, has done that.
    Les Bowen, Philly.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • His fine-art work, as seen over the past year, is sentimental and studious.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Kenneth was next, brainy and studious, but also kind of a jock—a picture of success from a very young age.
    Edward Enninful, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Some dudes go Jekyll and Hyde, studious and committed on the job, a hedonistic man on the town.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Giovanna is a young teenager, the beloved only child of two studious academics who live in the respectable part of Naples, high in the hills.
    Jenny Shank Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Kim, who is studying to become a lawyer, looked very studious with a legal pad, taking notes from the gallery for the entirety of the day.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022
  • And Queen Ona's strong sense of social justice has brought her to her friend's defense when other kids pick on the studious new girl.
    Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The Nazis’ studious bookkeeping would soon seal the fate of some of Hitler’s most infamous henchmen.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Young women and minorities who see her will want to be her and will follow her studious path.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • But things fall apart when Cory gets grounded for poor grades and is forced to work with a tutor, a studious classmate named Sunna.
    Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Kim, soft-spoken with an easy smile, was a studious kid growing up in a border town near China.
    Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Among the highlights of the evening include open artist studious, a succulent workshop, live music, food trucks, beer and wine.
    Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Unlike Boudin, Lorenzo was calm and studious, and, when Boudin acted up, Lorenzo talked him down.
    Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2019
  • They’re either the raging party girl or the studious library geek who never goes out.
    Kate Friedman, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Villanueva, who wore thick glasses and had a studious demeanor, was known as a flecha derecha, a straight arrow.
    The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • She swam, played water polo, and was known as popular and studious.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The studious Lucroy totes a big binder with notes on hitters, and is renowned for his game-planning and game-calling, an ideal skill set for a backup.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Mullen described Suzie as a beautiful, studious teenager who was kind to other girls in her school.
    Annie Sciacca, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Recency bias will fluster even the most patient and studious baseball minds, and paralyze the rest of us.
    Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Claiming to only write when God is present, his studious epistle to the streets will galvanize hearts as well as viral streams.
    Bianca Alysse, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2017
  • Her boyfriend and her father described Zhang as bright and studious, fun-loving and outgoing.
    Michael Tarm and Didi Tang, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
  • He was widely known there as a studious, generally strait-laced young man.
    New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Your studious ways won’t save you if the person won’t allow themselves to be reasoned with, and this could cost you financially in a huge way.
    Jodie Layne, Allure, 2 July 2017

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