Used in a Sentence

dogged

How to use dogged in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for dogged.

Editorial note

Its amazing how dogged a kid with a vision can be.

Examples16
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dogged gathered in one view.

adjective

stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dogged.

adjective

stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

Example sentences

1

Its amazing how dogged a kid with a vision can be.

2

For the rest of us, we'll continue to be dogged by this for a long time to come.

3

I've spent time with women in science and they seem pretty dogged in the pursuit of their goals.

4

That is true to some extent, but for UK local news they still do dogged investigating.

5

This can be worked around, but for me, the issue dogged me at almost every turn.

6

Gwern: I find his story of dogged persistence an inspiration.

7

Insightful programmers are better than dogged ones by orders of magnitude.

8

Except it isn't quite as "rags to riches" or "one man's dogged perseverance against the odds" as "one guy and his computer" implies, is it?

9

The Soviet system has long been dogged by a method of pricing that produced grotesque misallocations of effort".

10

Three cheers for Alan Bond's dogged determination to get this to reality and for pursuing private backing rather than the vested interests in the corporate sector or government.

11

It will be equal parts denial of other peoples' experiences and dogged insistence on the existence of a magical leveling force ensuring that justice has been perfectly delivered.

12

"Most of those achievements--earning a doctorate, publishing a journal article or a literary work or even securing a patent--all seem to be items that favor dogged effort rather than pure smarts.

13

When the enduring puzzle of longevity is finally cracked and death can be reliably cheated, it's not going to be those living in abject poverty, or the dogged grafters, or even the skilled professionals who benefit.

14

This is an interesting application, and dogged mathematical derivation, of survival analysis.

15

Where these people are dogged by recruiters and companies alike, there is a sharp dropoff; engineers who are smart but don't win in a tech bingo interview or didn't work at Google/Facebook or didn't go to Stanford get pinged by headhunters but passed over by companies.

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His dogged insistence on trying to turn every moral and political issue in computing into one that can be answered by open source[1] is neither realistic nor practical, and only serves to illustrate that his ideas all became fixed long before Berners-Lee came along and changed everything.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dogged in a sentence?

Its amazing how dogged a kid with a vision can be.

What does dogged mean?

stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

What part of speech is dogged?

dogged is commonly used as adjective.