How to Use assiduous in a Sentence

assiduous

adjective
  • They were assiduous in their search for all the latest facts and figures.
  • The project required some assiduous planning.
  • Be assiduous in your basting until the top of the fish turns opaque.
    — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • All of it together can swamp even those who are most assiduous about their health.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • In such a situation, even the most assiduous travellers will always press on to some kind of home.
    — Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Leray’s bounce-back is a testament to her assiduous work ethic.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The astronauts were therefore assiduous in their descriptions of the crater.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • There may be no physical evidence that your house has a tendency to flood, owing to your assiduous rehab work.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Like all good emo, the record was beloved by the most assiduous arbiters of feeling—teenagers, who embraced the band’s earnest yet playful approach to youthful angst.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • But the players maintained their assiduous fire, plugged into the alternating current of past and present.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • There was much talk beforehand about the Democrats’ ardent desire and assiduous efforts to project unity.
    — Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • This means that the assiduous use of insect repellent as well as frequent tick checks will make a huge difference in preventing disease.
    — Dipesh Navsaria, Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2018
  • After all the assiduous downplaying of terrorism fears, why are the media up-playing mass-shooting fears?
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Knowledgeable and assiduous consumers are the impetus needed to push the tipping point.
    — Michelle Williams, Forbes, 20 May 2022
  • In the meantime, Geelhood and Klotz maintained their assiduous vigil.
    — Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The restaurant features a wide-open kitchen surrounded by wooden counters on three sides, where a brigade of assiduous chefs with white caps work in assembly-line fashion.
    — Melinda Joe, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Two decades of assiduous efforts turned an implacable killer into a treatable chronic illness.
    — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • The number of positive tests among players remains low; the testing regimen is thorough and assiduous.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • And although the stones used are not actually modified for the task, monkeys are assiduous in searching for and selecting those of the perfect shape.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Securing the best surviving print of a film often required assiduous detective work.
    — Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Glynn is an assiduous and daring conceptualist with a penchant for excavating the past.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Journalists and public health messengers must also be assiduous in making sure that their headlines and reporting are strictly fact-based.
    — Rita Numerof, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Now that Amy is immune compromised, her parents are assiduous about maintaining a clean environment for her.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2021
  • By the same token, out-of-favor fads can suddenly, and without warning, make it into the limelight, surprising even the most assiduous trend-watchers.
    — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
  • Amid this totalizing assault, the nutria’s assiduous gnawing may seem a relatively mild insult; in the state’s coastal-threat index, the nutria would come in sixth place.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • An assiduous public-relations campaign has ensured that the newspapers bulge with profiles of him and his photogenic family.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2020
  • The irony of the term extension is that Disney, which pushed so hard to keep its own creations out of the public domain, is perhaps our most assiduous exploiter of, yes, the public domain.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The body, which was created in 1829, has been assiduous in ensuring its members receive fair payment for their work in the digital age.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
  • After about a century of assiduous dam-building, the United States has gotten out of the construction business and moved to dam-removal.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • The administration's assiduous efforts to ease supply chain backups at ports and internal transportation hubs can help only at the margins.
    — John Harwood, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022

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