Industrious is an English word with synonyms like hardworking or tireless. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Industrious meaning
Hard-working and persistent.
Synonyms of Industrious
Using Industrious
- The main meaning on this page is: Hard-working and persistent.
- Useful related words include: hardworking, tireless, untiring, diligent.
- In the example corpus, industrious often appears in combinations such as: an industrious, and industrious, industrious and.
Context around Industrious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Industrious
- In this selection, "industrious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ingenious, based, bee, gaekwar and leader stand out and add context to how "industrious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a very industrious leader equipped and are the industrious xenomorph plagued. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "industrious" sits close to words such as abdicated, acme and afcfta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with industrious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Unfortunately, there was the over-industrious Gaekwar to cut short the Paradise! (12 words)
And yet our team and community overcame this by being creative and industrious. (13 words)
Plumtree is athletic and industrious but still has a few creases he needs to iron out. (16 words)
Heard, an industrious strike runner who thrives in the tackle, endured a shaky opening five minutes, but she grew into the afternoon, breaking into Wales’ territory to provide the platform for Abby Dow to glide over in the corner for the hosts’ sixth. (43 words)
Asabob missed a staggering 52 games in all competitions from November of the previous year till his return in September 2015…but this was short-lived with another layoff keeping the industrious West African out for over a month. (39 words)
The ancient town of Kabba will next week stand still to celebrate an industrious, easy going goal -getter and a son of the soil who is a pride to okun people and kogi state, Prince Adebanji David Jimoh. (38 words)
Unfortunately, there was the over-industrious Gaekwar to cut short the Paradise! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
An Albanian jailed for running a brothel allegedly frequented by rugby star Lawrence Dallaglio has escaped deportation after a judge described him as 'clever and industrious'.
And yet our team and community overcame this by being creative and industrious.
Hard to stay mad at the leaf damage to my plants with all the good work this industrious bee does in the garden.
Powys County Council vice chairman Councillor Jonathan Wilkinson, who represents Meifod, described Roberts as an "industrious well-liked member of the community serving the agricultural industry".
Unfortunately, there was the over-industrious Gaekwar to cut short the Paradise!
We know Amolo as a very industrious leader equipped with international entrepreneurial connections, and she is willing to serve our people,” Owot said while urging other NRM delegates to vote for her in the coming NRM primaries.
You will not find a prospectus that is more positive and more ambitious from anyone else, because Liberal Democrats believe in a Scotland that is industrious, innovative and internationalist of outlook.
Also returning are the industrious, xenomorph-plagued crew of The Riluttante in Space Invaded!, Martha's Monster Make-Up and the fifth episodes of Peaches' Creatures and Rex Power.
And Callum McGregor put in one of his best, most industrious shifts in a green and white jersey to date.
As Enobong put it, “We are industrious, no doubt about that, but lack the conducive environment to translate these to growth and advancement.
Heard, an industrious strike runner who thrives in the tackle, endured a shaky opening five minutes, but she grew into the afternoon, breaking into Wales’ territory to provide the platform for Abby Dow to glide over in the corner for the hosts’ sixth.
It was a fine achievement by the industrious official who has assisted with the development of many of the club’s up and coming juniors since volunteering his services.
I’ve been a passionate advocate of these ingenious, industrious little creatures since I became a beekeeper nearly a decade ago, having fallen for them as a child.
Plumtree is athletic and industrious but still has a few creases he needs to iron out.
The ancient town of Kabba will next week stand still to celebrate an industrious, easy going goal -getter and a son of the soil who is a pride to okun people and kogi state, Prince Adebanji David Jimoh.
Asabob missed a staggering 52 games in all competitions from November of the previous year till his return in September 2015…but this was short-lived with another layoff keeping the industrious West African out for over a month.
He added that Egbu, a foremost Quantity Surveyor with 12 books and over 350 publications to his credit, was a worthy example of an industrious Nigerian, whom the younger generation should adopt as a role model.
In her younger days, Alice was an industrious woman who was employed for some time in St Mary’s College, Knockbeg.
New York-based Industrious, which has co-working spaces in office buildings in downtown Chicago as well as in other city neighborhoods and in Evanston, also is considering opening space to students.
The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils.
Common combinations with industrious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an industrious 14×
- and industrious 8×
- industrious and 7×
- the industrious 6×
- is industrious 2×
- most industrious 2×
- industrious shifts 2×
- was industrious 2×
- be industrious 2×