How to Use assiduous in a Sentence

assiduous

adjective
  • They were assiduous in their search for all the latest facts and figures.
  • The project required some assiduous planning.
  • Be assiduous in your basting until the top of the fish turns opaque.
    Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • In such a situation, even the most assiduous travellers will always press on to some kind of home.
    Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
  • But the players maintained their assiduous fire, plugged into the alternating current of past and present.
    Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Knowledgeable and assiduous consumers are the impetus needed to push the tipping point.
    Michelle Williams, Forbes, 20 May 2022
  • Like all good emo, the record was beloved by the most assiduous arbiters of feeling—teenagers, who embraced the band’s earnest yet playful approach to youthful angst.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Leray’s bounce-back is a testament to her assiduous work ethic.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The parents' tender, assiduous care is moving to witness.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2020
  • This means that the assiduous use of insect repellent as well as frequent tick checks will make a huge difference in preventing disease.
    Dipesh Navsaria, Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2018
  • There was much talk beforehand about the Democrats’ ardent desire and assiduous efforts to project unity.
    Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • And although the stones used are not actually modified for the task, monkeys are assiduous in searching for and selecting those of the perfect shape.
    The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • There may be no physical evidence that your house has a tendency to flood, owing to your assiduous rehab work.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • But Luisi and the orchestra gave it assiduous attention, and in an age of so much assaultive new music, a dreamy escape was welcome.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
  • After all the assiduous downplaying of terrorism fears, why are the media up-playing mass-shooting fears?
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The number of positive tests among players remains low; the testing regimen is thorough and assiduous.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The restaurant features a wide-open kitchen surrounded by wooden counters on three sides, where a brigade of assiduous chefs with white caps work in assembly-line fashion.
    Melinda Joe, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2018
  • In the meantime, Geelhood and Klotz maintained their assiduous vigil.
    Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Digitally savvy Ukrainians have been assiduous in their fight to bring Russians to justice for war crimes.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2022
  • Glynn is an assiduous and daring conceptualist with a penchant for excavating the past.
    The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The only way to find anything is by searching hashtags, which means that countless posts on the site are little more than agglomerations of hashtags and the assiduous spammers who take advantage of them.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Two decades of assiduous efforts turned an implacable killer into a treatable chronic illness.
    Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Finkelstein attacked the route with an assiduous efficiency.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • After about a century of assiduous dam-building, the United States has gotten out of the construction business and moved to dam-removal.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • Journalists and public health messengers must also be assiduous in making sure that their headlines and reporting are strictly fact-based.
    Rita Numerof, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • But an overly assiduous car could also make human drivers frustrated.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 29 May 2018
  • The administration's assiduous efforts to ease supply chain backups at ports and internal transportation hubs can help only at the margins.
    John Harwood, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
  • An assiduous public-relations campaign has ensured that the newspapers bulge with profiles of him and his photogenic family.
    The Economist, 28 Nov. 2020
  • By the same token, out-of-favor fads can suddenly, and without warning, make it into the limelight, surprising even the most assiduous trend-watchers.
    Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
  • Those who knew her describe Mackie as a vibrant and assiduous person — someone who struggled but was loving and optimistic and did her best to overcome the formidable forces that tried to hold her back.
    Annie Hylton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020

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