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Dogged
"Dogged" in a Sentence (16 examples)
She is dogged by misfortune.
It is the dogged who wins.
Misfortune dogged him all his life.
Looking through the window I could see her walking feebly along the other side while her pursuer dogged her some little distance behind.
He was also dogged by allegations that he had ties to Chinese criminal gangs known as triads, which he denied.
He had no illusions about the London police. Indeed, he was collecting evidence of their malpractices; and those costermongers, not allowed to stand their barrows in the streets; and prostitutes, good Lord, the fault wasn't in them, nor in young men either, but in our detestable social system and so forth; all of which he considered, could be seen considering, grey, dogged, dapper, clean, as he walked across the Park to tell his wife that he loved her.
Despite City's slick attacking play, United managed to see out a nil-nil draw with a display of dogged defending.
Analysts say despite the differences that have dogged their ties and a history of mistrust following a brief border war in 1962, these meetings underline that the two neighbors and strategic rivals are keen for relations to remain on an even keel.
His dogged efforts eventually paid off.
At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.
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They will replace the four five-car Class 180 Adelantes [...] that have been dogged by poor reliability.
Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
Rushing out to the point above the reef, we watched the conflict between canoe and sea. When the man reached the gas boat, the screams of the boy stopped. With great risk they loaded the canoe till she began to take water. The boy bailed furiously. The long dogged pull of the man's oars challenged death inch by inch, wave by wave.
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Using the latest technology, and with the dogged determination of our testing and tracing scheme, we've successfully identified the person in question.
"I'm afraid I've given him a heap of trouble. You see," he explained, looking at Paul critically, "I never thought of eating before I left town, and one gets so dogged hungry, you know walking. I say it is a long tramp, isn't it?"
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