How to Use dogged in a Sentence

dogged

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And in their dogged pursuit of profitability, the labels seem to have abandoned the artist, the soul of the music industry.
    — Les Borsai, SPIN, 26 June 2023
  • The key asset of Russia’s forces now is persistence - dogged and callous.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Kramm said the case could not have been solved without the dogged determination of Seward.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Against all odds, and thanks only to her own dogged detective work, Dos Santos now had a shot at justice.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The news was already starting to get out, thanks to a dogged City News reporter, but there had been no public announcement.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Some of the most dogged reporting at these Games has not been about athletes or competitions, but where to find a good meal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Dustin Hoffman is the dogged American reporter who finds her, perhaps losing his heart in the process.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Against all odds, Afghan cinema slowly blossomed in the past decade, led in large part by the efforts of a handful of dogged women.
    — Rebecca Davis, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In the face of dogged Ukrainian defense, Russian attempts to encircle the city have largely failed.
    — Andy Eckardt, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The West, in no small part because of Zelensky’s dogged and eloquent appeals to help Ukraine, has greater purpose and wider unity.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2022
  • In a small town, a dogged reporter is inevitably an unpopular one.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • But as science and medicine continue their dogged onward march, aging is starting to look less set in stone.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Through dogged research, Williams has illuminated the mystery of the book that could not be written and that haunted its author to the end.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
  • But a dogged archivist at Our Lady of the Lake University took the challenge.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021
  • And yet, Atlanta is alive with hope, resilience, and the dogged determination that made this place the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the 60s.
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
  • But Stanford fought back with a dogged effort in the paint and finished with a 43-33 advantage on the boards after outpacing ASU by nine in the second half.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
  • There’s good news, still: At the back of the pandemic, there’s also a dogged sense of optimism within the financial sector.
    — Astha Rajvanshi, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
  • With dogged efficiency, Xi has set out to strengthen belief in the Party and to build the tools of dictatorship.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

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