Get to know Tenacious better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like retentive or coherent.
Tenacious meaning
- Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
- Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
- Holding together; cohesive.
Synonyms of Tenacious
Using Tenacious
- The main meaning on this page is: Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive. | Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged. | Holding together; cohesive.
- Useful related words include: retentive, coherent, unregenerate, obstinate.
- In the example corpus, tenacious often appears in combinations such as: the tenacious, and tenacious, tenacious and.
Context around Tenacious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tenacious
- In this selection, "tenacious" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, band, minor, giants, college, defending and defense stand out and add context to how "tenacious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and some tenacious defending from and assuredly a tenacious defender who. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tenacious" sits close to words such as abstinence, adventurer and alters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tenacious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Perhaps not so much poking the bear as taunting the tenacious terrier, it was called “Struggletown”. (16 words)
Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Morse, Miss Marple: The British have a long history of brilliant and tenacious detectives. (17 words)
She's as tenacious as they come, proving her worth to the team every chance she gets. (17 words)
Mountain Brook defensive lineman Harrison Dukes (54) attempts to block a punt during a game between the Mountain Brook Spartans and the Minor Tenacious Tigers at the Tony Lunceford Field in Birmingham, AL on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. (38 words)
Ohtani hasn’t allowed an earned run in 19 innings over his last three starts, but the AL MVP frontrunner had to grind against the Giants’ tenacious lineup while issuing three walks and striking out five. (36 words)
She has been patient, tenacious and courageous in her wait for justice and I hope this gives her some closure as she tries to move on from her harrowing ordeal at the hands of Ali. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
A clash between a tenacious college student and k once again takes center stage, as banning the jet-tracking account sparks a storm of controversy and accusations of biased enforcement.
A crucial intercept from Kate Heffernan and some tenacious defending from Burley saw the Steel take a late lead.
After being unable to break through Oswego's tenacious defense for the first 61 minutes, the Redwings (10-1) used a nice build up to produce the game's first goal.
And Black’s band, Tenacious D, which features friend and guitar mentor Kyle Gass, remains active and near and dear to Black’s heart.
Blindside Wyatt Shanks was tenacious on defence and got across the line for a try, while Booth controlled the match nicely.
But instead of taking the path of least resistance, this tenacious player decided to stay on the Sky Islands until they managed to complete at least 20 shrines.
During his time on the sidelines, the tenacious Colombia international has settled down further on Merseyside and improved his English - but lost none of his skill.
He is very tough and tenacious and has a decent record in discipline, which is something that we definitely need.
Her close friend Tamara Lynch confirmed the news on Friday, paying tribute to her ‘tenacious’ personality and work ethic.
Luguentz Dort is assuredly a tenacious defender who will make Cleveland’s perimeter guys work for everything in on-ball matchups if the Cavs are too iso-heavy at times as well.
Mountain Brook defensive lineman Harrison Dukes (54) attempts to block a punt during a game between the Mountain Brook Spartans and the Minor Tenacious Tigers at the Tony Lunceford Field in Birmingham, AL on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023.
Ohtani hasn’t allowed an earned run in 19 innings over his last three starts, but the AL MVP frontrunner had to grind against the Giants’ tenacious lineup while issuing three walks and striking out five.
Perhaps not so much poking the bear as taunting the tenacious terrier, it was called “Struggletown”.
She has been patient, tenacious and courageous in her wait for justice and I hope this gives her some closure as she tries to move on from her harrowing ordeal at the hands of Ali.
Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Morse, Miss Marple: The British have a long history of brilliant and tenacious detectives.
She's as tenacious as they come, proving her worth to the team every chance she gets.
Tenacious defence planted early seeds of doubt in Sabalenka’s head, which under increased pressure became a crucial weakness in the final set as the unforced errors mounted.
Tenacious Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Quinn Cutler took a decade to track down the defendant and arrest him at Stansted as he stepped off a plane from Portugal in November last year.
This new range is ready to expand in future updates, and showing it off will let everyone know the kind of truly tenacious treasure hunter you really are.
Through this goal, the team intends to show crypto bigwigs that the silent majority is tenacious when united.
Common combinations with tenacious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tenacious 14×
- and tenacious 12×
- tenacious and 12×
- was tenacious 5×
- as tenacious 5×
- tenacious defense 4×
- his tenacious 4×
- tenacious as 3×
- is tenacious 3×
- most tenacious 3×