How to Use dogged in a Sentence

dogged

adjective
  • Her dogged efforts eventually paid off.
  • He can be seen as a dogged competitor who used his edge to push his way to the big leagues.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Some people still pursue that dream in the dry, dogged manner that Meagher did.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
  • The going was a bit dogged, as the path was rocky, relatively steep, and often wet.
    — Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2021
  • But three years later, his most dogged effort to achieve that vision threatened to be more delusion than dream.
    — Melanie Mason, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
  • Her clarity of thought and dogged focus on how to uplift people who need it most have stayed constant.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
  • Apte does what the script requires as the dogged cop on his trial, even as Andrews has a bit of a more one-note role.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Poe saw writing less as the work of the sudden genius and more the work of the careful, dogged scientist.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
  • Images like that—paired with her more dogged energy on some of these tracks—suggest there is hope buried somewhere in these songs.
    — Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The Wolves will miss his shot creation on offense nearly as much as his dogged perimeter defense.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • As the then-president struggled through his term, the first lady was his dogged defender.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • The key asset of Russia’s forces now is persistence - dogged and callous.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Some of the most dogged reporting at these Games has not been about athletes or competitions, but where to find a good meal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • As the dogged Aloysius, Amy Ryan is a commanding presence in her steadfast pursuit of the truth.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Her dogged efforts to get every manuscript into print succeeded, and Wade makes the best of a musty publishing saga.
    — Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Without her meticulous and dogged efforts, the trial lots might not have been available and ready to test in the West African outbreak.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Mr Savona is a dogged critic of the euro and the author of a plan for extracting Italy from the single currency area.
    — The Economist, 28 May 2018
  • Casemiro as the dogged enforcer, Kroos as the metronome and Modric as the creative genius, all three of these players will need to be on top form this season.
    — SI.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • There, Sweetpea puts her dogged investigation skills to use and returns with proof hard enough to save SternTao from ruin.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Yet to this day, her anguished family, who have become dogged investigators themselves, don’t know what really happened to Amy.
    — Liam Quinn, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Colloff’s reporting is, as usual, dogged and exhaustive, and the book reads like a thriller, but never sacrifices the humanity of the people Skalnik hurt.
    — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Instead, in the past decade, the sport has only gained a more dogged reputation as a frosty space for LGBTQ+ individuals.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The Pats are back because of who their quarterback has become, and who Mike Vrabel is as a head coach; a man capable of steeling a brittle roster into a dogged competitor.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 22 Dec. 2025
  • His parents ran a rowdy daycare out of their home an hour north of Denver, and Caldwell looks back at his dogged digging as an early attempt to find the kind of peace and clarity his mind has always naturally craved.
    — Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Alvarado would give the Knicks a dogged point-of-attack defender, another traditional ballhandler and OK 3-point shooter.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Mirren leads The Thursday Murder Club as Elizabeth Best, a former spy and dogged investigator.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Since then, the book has taken on a feeling of legacy, representing both a fitting memorial to Parker’s extraordinary journalism career and his dogged love for El Paso.
    — Book Marks august 7, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern were cast as the bumbling but dogged bandits, Harry and Marv, and Catherine O’Hara brought humor and compassion to the part of Kevin’s mother.
    — Tim Greiving, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One thing worth noting, however, was its dogged commitment to improving the fortunes of women in esports, which is continued right up until its final weeks, regularly hosting creator parties, panelist discussions, and more from its soon-to-close HQ.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The daughter of a couple who were shot in their spacious Lake Tahoe home, leaving the father dead and the mother badly wounded, praised police Sunday for dogged work that led to the arrest of her brother-in-law and an alleged accomplice in Nevada on Friday.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2023

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