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Example sentences for "painstaking"

Lexicographically close words:
paining; painless; painlessly; painlessness; pains; painstakingly; paint; paintbrush; painted; painter
  1. She was thoroughly sincere and full of sympathy for the kind, painstaking man who, notwithstanding one or two peculiarities which she and her brother could not help observing, was really a good teacher.

  2. The younger members of the bar will recall with pleasure his courteous bearing to them, the delight it seemed to give him to render them assistance, and the painstaking aid he would bestow when his legal advice was solicited.

  3. Scholarly historian who was so painstaking and detailed in his accounts that he was almost neglected until the present time.

  4. All these, and many more inquiries, are worthy of the most painstaking study.

  5. At the very least it must be said that we are bound, in common justice, to give due credit to the ceaseless activity, the continual, painstaking effort of the guardians of the public weal.

  6. Fifty years later a painstaking lawyer in Berkshire was able to unravel another case of fraud, which had eluded the imperfect police of the day.

  7. In a research, which may, from its painstaking accuracy, be called classical, F.

  8. He evidently saw at a flash how to communicate the idea, but, as he must have done hundreds of times in the classroom, he developed it with what was at once spontaneous and painstaking detail.

  9. Once again these tales and poems are of the same family in the degree to which they subordinate any kind of event to the dominant mood and in the painstaking use of every accessory that will contribute to a sense of shivery horror.

  10. As he never wrote--never had time to write--with painstaking care, his best passages are those which he set down with passionate rapidity.

  11. But suppose a literary artist ventured to go into a painstaking and elaborate description of one of these grisly things--the critics would skin him alive.

  12. With the most painstaking care and nicety, I stood the umbrella up once more, took my hand away, and down it came again.

  13. The "guide" at the head of the line cut imaginary steps, in a laborious and painstaking way, and not a monkey budged till the step above was vacated.

  14. Thompson, one of the most painstaking and accomplished of American archæologists.

  15. Spontaneous as was his creative power he was most painstaking in regard to the setting of his musical ideas and would often devote weeks to re-writing a single page that every detail might be perfect.

  16. Its story records a slow, painstaking building up of principles to control its raw materials; for music, as we understand it, cannot exist without some kind of design.

  17. The reader who is curious as to the most indifferent details, will find what he seeks in a singular monument of painstaking spleen, entitled Menage et Finances de Voltaire, by M.

  18. The very essence of the old French tragedy was painstaking, and painstaking has had its unfailing and exceeding great reward.

  19. Twenty years before he settled down here, Voltaire had been consulted by Vauvenargues, and had replied with words of painstaking and generous counsel.

  20. We do not know whether this was a fortuitous kind of growth in his own mind, or whether it was a scrap of recollection from the painstaking pages in which Cudworth had worked at the establishment of that explanation of polytheism.

  21. His fidelity in noting the texts preached from, down to the last Sabbath he spent on earth, is a proof of his unparalleled perseverance and painstaking in keeping his diary.

  22. General Wheeler was, from boyhood, a careful and painstaking student of the profession which he adopted.

  23. However this may be, I will say that I have always made it a rule to give painstaking attention to seemingly unimportant details in my legal cases, and have frequently won them on this account.

  24. Least of all would a layman ridicule or question the painstaking labor involved in astronomic work, though he cannot see a glimmer of light or intelligence in the enigmatical pages.

  25. They constituted the expression of the Samaritan's painstaking compassion; and for our present purpose no further notice of them is needful.

  26. The Son of God not only gave himself as a sacrifice for sin; he also laboured as a patient painstaking teacher of the ignorant: he is the Apostle as well as the High Priest of our profession.

  27. This applies as a rule to the General Staff of most nations, but not to such painstaking details.

  28. In the later reports sent by Pershing there is manifest the same painstaking carefulness and thorough understanding of his task.

  29. As I look back on those classes in "Beginning Greek," and in Cicero, I recognize his painstaking thoroughness.

  30. A part of his painstaking self passed into the mental processes, and so into the equipment, of those who sat under him.

  31. He was especially delighted with these, and determined some day to write a play or a novel portraying the inner side of their painstaking spirituality.

  32. It is well to bear in mind that although this speech was scribbled off with seeming ease, Lincoln owed his ability to do it to a long and painstaking study of words and English style.

  33. They do not realize the need for this painstaking preliminary work, and hence they frequently stand before an audience with little information of value to impart to their hearers.

  34. Thus, it not infrequently happens that these insect mothers are gratified by a sight of their offspring, though sometimes they evince painstaking care and solicitude toward creatures which they will never see.

  35. Again the other cleared his throat and spoke with painstaking and judicial slowness.

  36. He ate the fish raw, masticating with painstaking care, for the eating was an act of pure reason.

  37. It is on the accurate and painstaking work of the librarian, who preserves and catalogues small things as conscientiously as large ones, that we rely for the completeness of our record of zoological knowledge.

  38. His aid, in the shape of extra teaching, given at the last moment, will often secure for the careless and inattentive pupil, better success than is the lot of the painstaking and industrious one, who cannot afford to pay extra fees.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "painstaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assiduity; assiduous; careful; close; conscientious; deliberate; diligence; diligent; elaborate; exact; fussy; heedful; indefatigable; industrious; industry; laborious; methodical; meticulous; operose; painful; pains; painstaking; particular; punctilious; punctual; rigid; scientific; scrupulous; sedulous; severe; squeamish; studious; thorough; thoroughness