Use "dogged" in a sentence

1. breaking of the taboos that had dogged her line down the centuries gave her a strength

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2. dogged its tracks, but as Lucy moved closer, as the figure gathered its limbs together

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3. On the ground the shape seemed almost frail, as though it could not carry the burden of terror that forever dogged its tracks, but as Lucy moved closer, as the figure gathered its limbs together and began to unbend, began to straighten and stand, she saw with horror that he, for it must be masculine, was tall and thick set and lithe, as if he were a wolf or a hunting cat

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4. All, but those few, not only accepted the quirky little family but enjoyed their company and respected their accomplishments as peers in the common struggle with the elemental forces: time and nature, which dogged all of humanity alike

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5. He wasn’t his best tail but he was dogged

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6. Still, as he noticed her hand grasp the hilt of her blade as it lay on the ground, and hold it across her lap, he realized he could learn to respect her for her dogged spirit

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7. The sun had finally broken free of the dogged clouds and filtered down through the trees above him

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8. German bullets dogged our footsteps there and we could hear the swish of them as they cut a swathe through the grass behind us

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9. Ducking his six-six frame through the metal cabin hatch, McKee dogged it closed and headed down the short flight of stairs to the deck

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10. To this day, the FBI and COINTELPRO are dogged by accusations they assassinated Dr

11. dogged by deliberate foot-dragging and obstruction at the most senior

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12. His heart beat faster and he couldn’t help but wonder at how natural the cane felt to him now, and in spite of the pain that still dogged him

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13. A silence of dogged determination slowly descended over the group as they struggled on

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14. The most dogged ones are always rewarded

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15. The one thing he was sure of is that all the voices that had dogged him since his tragedy had stopped from the very first night he had taken his new identity

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16. A dogged belief in consistency obscures one's vísion

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17. dogged me in the end but at this stage I was offering him in for half the business I was about to set up

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18. In the end V dogged me so this whole saga was a waste of my energy but at the time I thought he was a good mate

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19. Fuelled by the drink I couldn"t help myself and I took some shots at the AFP and the so called mate that dogged me

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20. They dogged and tried to encompass the boys and turn them into leaf monsters

21. The party was still going on now, long after the booze had gone and someone had spilt wine all over the record player, with those dogged dancers still going out of little more than monkish habit

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22. Frustration dogged a tired Rudolph as his phone went silent

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23. Maybe it was this dogged determination to prove himself that made Shah the ideal person to take on the tough UP challenge

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24. He could see her point, but that did nothing to assuage the guilt that had dogged him since his encounter with April and Roy McKennon

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25. enough force that he'd be dogged by bad luck in all

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26. Despite their lack of progress, his dogged persistence with the case was proof of that

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27. And why should she go about stirring people up and forcing them to be dogged by luggage carts?

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28. The great comfort about relatives is that though they may make what assertions they like you need not and do not believe them; and it was Fate and nothing but Fate that had dogged me malevolently all round Rügen and joined me here at Arkona once more to Mrs

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29. Law enforcement and political leaders dogged one another, each pointing fingers, demanding the other do something–

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30. Sig’s persistent barking—not to mention his dogged attempts to back down a big brown bull that was seeking shelter from the flies—

31. One had for a stay with Judith to have clothes, and she had no clothes; at least, none newer than eight years old--her immense unworn trousseau dogged her through the years--for Judith gave many parties at the Master's Lodge, brilliant gatherings, her mother called them in her rare letters, where London, come down on purpose and expressed in Prime and other ministers as well as in the fine flower of the aristocracy and a few selected fragrances from the world of literature and art--once her mother wrote that Ingram, the great painter, had been at the last party, and was so much enslaved by Judith's loveliness that he had asked as a favour to be allowed to paint her--sat at Judith's feet

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32. master tracker who has dogged my footsteps all this long year

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33. slave hunters had dogged their trail

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34. treated the rain with the same dogged resolve he had Rainer

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35. dogged researchers are succeeding at piercing their ages old veil

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36. stomach, the pain that dogged his every waking hour burned

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37. Dogged by the reoccurring nightmare & blanked out with an a letchard inc odyssey

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38. But his acute nervousness and lack of self-confidence dogged him constantly

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39. They seemed to be waiting for something with a dogged determination, and they looked at the Jury, but at nothing else

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40. Not only did he guess it by the fact that the second finger of her right hand was no longer inky, but she spent her evenings downstairs now, was met no more among newspaper offices, and studied with a dogged patience, which assured him that she was bent on occupying her mind with something useful, if not pleasant

41. It has been suggested also to me that the impalpable constraint is put upon the nature of a seaman by the Spirit of the Sea, which he serves with a dumb and dogged devotion

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42. But this I do know, that it is very difficult to display a dogged devotion to a mere spirit, however great

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43. What awakens the seaman's sense of duty, what lays that impalpable constraint upon the strength of his manliness, what commands his not always dumb if always dogged devotion, is not the spirit of the sea but something that in his eyes has a body, a character, a fascination, and almost a soul--it is his ship

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44. It hurt the boy keenly, this feeling about her that she had never had her life's fulfilment: and his own incapability to make up to her hurt him with a sense of impotence, yet made him patiently dogged inside

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45. They kindled him and made him glow to his work, whereas his mother's influence was to make him quietly determined, patient, dogged, unwearied

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46. He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine

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47. She moved aside her mouth to ask, dogged and low:

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48. Catherine, by instinct, must have divined it was obdurate perversity, and not dislike, that prompted this dogged conduct; for, after remaining an instant undecided, she stooped and impressed on his cheek a gentle kiss

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49. With each one completed, his ability as a leader shone through, not to mention his dogged determination and sheer refusal to be beaten

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50. It had that dogged look about it

51.  The battle against communism dogged Ronald Reagan right up to the very end of his term as Screen Actors Guild president

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52. Was it some sort of electrical discharge? Was I approaching some natural phenomenon still unknown to scientists on shore? Or, rather (and this thought did cross my mind), had the hand of man intervened in that blaze? Had human beings fanned those flames? In these deep strata would I meet up with more of Captain Nemo's companions, friends he was about to visit who led lives as strange as his own? Would I find a whole colony of exiles down here, men tired of the world's woes, men who had sought and found independence in the ocean's lower depths? All these insane, inadmissible ideas dogged me, and in this frame of mind, continually excited by the series of wonders passing before my

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53. But I felt myself so unequal to the performance that I gave it up, and stood looking at Miss Havisham in what I suppose she took for a dogged manner, inasmuch as she said, when we had taken a good look at each other,—

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54. (Calling encouraging words he shambles back with a furtive poacher's tread, dogged by the setter into a dark stalestunk corner

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55. Why, then, had he come hither? Was it but the mockery of penitence? A mockery, indeed, but in which his soul trifled with itself! A mockery at which angels blushed and wept, while fiends rejoiced, with jeering laughter! He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure

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56. services with dogged but unimaginative efficiency – a trait he illustrated by giving a tedious sermon on why God was more important than Money, an odd note on which to open one of England’s great commercial fairs

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57. Margolis dogged Colin’s footsteps as Colin approached their group

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58. You dogged her and followed her and made her life a misery to her in order to induce her to abandon the husband whom she loved and respected in order to fly with you, whom she feared and hated

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59. There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle which followed

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60. He pressed resolutely forward, still without haste, but with dogged fixity of purpose; but the Mole, now thoroughly alarmed, placed himself in front of him, and looking into his eyes saw that they were glazed and set and turned a streaked and shifting grey—not his friend's eyes, but the eyes of some other animal! Grappling with him strongly he dragged him inside, threw him down, and held him

61. Alfred Weinstein, who had infected the Bird with dysentery at Mitsushima, was dogged by urges to scavenge in garbage cans

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62. Dogged by projections of the battered coastline, the boardwalk swept away, a majestic roller coaster bobbing in the waves like the skeleton of a whale, more woeful than the carcass of Moby Dick, containing the joyrides of generations of risk takers

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63. while the sun, that burned his back, his head, and his arms, bare to the elbow, gave a vigor and dogged energy to his labor; and more and more often now came those moments

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64. They’d never been trained in the movement and fire tactics the ICA routinely employed, but sheer, dogged stubbornness prevented their retreat from turning into a rout, despite the confusion, chaos, and casualties

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65. If she climbed down from the buggy, he climbed after her and dogged her footsteps

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66. By the end of the line, I knew how The Specials should sound, and Jerry’s dogged pursuit of his ideals and the improbable chemistry of the lineup did the rest

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67. His mood transmuted itself into a dogged indifference till at length he fancied he was looking on his own existence with the passive interest of an outsider

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68. No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance

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69. His Appetites were endless and insatiable, albeit carried out in an Atmosphere of dogged Determination in lieu of enthusiastick Ecstacy—which I fear, is oft’ the case with perverse Lusts such as his

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70. If he dogged her, she would react and probably lead him into the heart of the story

71. But smart and dogged could only help you so much when you didn’t have a clue

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72. I dogged 'em to the widder's stile, and stood in the dark and heard the ragged one beg for the widder, and the Spaniard swear he'd spile her looks just as I told you and your two—"

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73. I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he, a dogged silence

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74. Feet firmly and resolutely planted, she waited, her hands deep in her lumpy tweed pockets, her mouth cool, as the dumb volunteers dogged it to the stage

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75. As dogged as a matador trailing a wounded thunder-titan, he followed

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76. Clutching his weapons, he aped down the hidden ivy rungs and dogged the wet grass

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77. In addition, reforms during the 1990s have removed any lingering stigma that once dogged the Nasdaq

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78. Regardless of the methods employed, however, the idea-generation process typically reflects the same abiding curiosity and dogged pursuit of information seen in the research and analysis efforts that follow

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79. I dogged it on through La Fayette and Morgan City and came in the early dawn to Houma, which is pronounced Homer and is in my memory one of the pleasantest places in the world

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80. You dogged her and followed her and made her life a misery to her, in order to induce her to abandon the husband whom she loved and respected in order to fly with you, whom she feared and hated

81. 'The White Whale—the White Whale!' was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea

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82. The perspiration with which he was drenched cooled him, while the sun, that burned his back, his head, and his arms, bare to the elbow, gave a vigor and dogged energy to his labor; and more and more often now came those moments of unconsciousness, when it was possible not to think what one was doing

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83. I have felt that before dying (and I am dying, however much fatter I may appear to you), I must absolutely make a fool of, at least, one of that class of men which has dogged me all my life, which I hate so cordially, and which is so prominently represented by your much esteemed brother

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84. But his grit and dogged pertinacity carried him safely through various adventures at sea and in Central Africa

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