Sentences with 'tenacity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tenacity and other words derived from it.
• « Mithridates went on to fight a total of three wars against Rome, but despite his tenacity he was finally defeated and killed in 63 BCE, the same year that Rome extinguished the last pitiful vestiges of the Seleucid kingdom. »
• « But there would be no miners here were it not for the tenacity of geologists who, noting the geological similarities between Western Australia and the diamond-bearing areas of South Africa, deduced that there must also be ancient volcanic vents full of kimberlite, the mineral in which diamonds are often found. »
• « Impressed by the tenacity and courage of the young maple, I pruned the thicket around it and cut down a willow that would soon have blocked its path for the third time. »