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Example sentences for "persists"

Lexicographically close words:
persistence; persistency; persistent; persistently; persisting; persolvere; person; persona; personable; personae
  1. Now, I think it will interfere with his defense if he persists in it, and I am sure that counsel has a very difficult task.

  2. Even today this idea still persists in many minds.

  3. The excessive emphasis which in this first stage is laid upon the transcendental unity of apperception persists throughout the later forms of the deduction, and, as I shall try to show, does so to the detriment of the argument.

  4. That part of it which persists in the successive stages rests upon an explicitly developed distinction between empirical and transcendental apperception.

  5. It persists several weeks or one or two months; as a rule, it is rapidly responsive to treatment.

  6. Although favus of the scalp persists into adult life, it becomes less active and, finally, as a rule, gradually disappears, leaving behind scarred or atrophic bald areas.

  7. The predisposition to these lesions persists indefinitely.

  8. New lesions continue to appear for several days or weeks; and in exceptional instances, repeated relapses take place, and the disease thus persists for months.

  9. In nearly but not quite all of the Abdominal fishes the slender tube connecting the air-bladder with the Å“sophagus persists through life.

  10. The mesocoracoid or precoracoid arch, found in all Ganoids, persists in the less specialized types of bony fishes, although no trace of it is found in the perch-like forms.

  11. If the poisoning lasts a longer time, the kidneys become less blood-rich, and show the described white striping very beautifully; this change persists several weeks.

  12. In man, a solution of 1 : 120 commences to act in about six to seven minutes, reaches its highest point in from ten to fifteen minutes, and persists more or less for six to eight days.

  13. If Miss Griffin persists in the union, I warn her that she must abide by the consequences of her act.

  14. The zonal system still persists side by side with the freer style, and is often very skilfully handled as a means of decoration.

  15. And Schoenberg remains a troubling presence as long as one persists in regarding these particular pieces as the expression of a sensibility, as long as one persists in seeking in them the lyric flight.

  16. In search of their own selves they sought out every vestige of the past, every vestige of the fatherland that Peter the Great and Catherine had sought to reform, and that persists in every Russian underneath the coating of convention.

  17. She knows that it was there, when last seen, and not elsewhere; she persists in looking for it there and does not once think of going back to the first perch.

  18. The insect persists in the same psychic course, it continues its action, it does what it was doing before, it corrects what to it appears but a careless flaw in the work of the moment.

  19. I once more replace it by the strange nest; and again the insect persists in continuing its labour.

  20. She persists in trying to fill her cracked receptacle, whence the provisions disappear as soon as stored away.

  21. Pushed aside at the moment when she is about to insert her abdomen into the cell, the Bee goes back to the opening and persists in going down head first to begin with.

  22. Nothing could convince her: born to work, she persists in an industrious life.

  23. An unwillingness to maintain the standing position; the animal persists in lying down.

  24. Even in the Alps, more than 3,000 feet above sea level, where such conditions prevail in secluded valleys, anthrax persists among herds.

  25. Following abortion there is a dirty, yellowish-gray mucopurulent discharge which persists for two or more weeks.

  26. It persists in the joints when once attacked, and is usually connected with disease of the navel.

  27. Well, but the man is now married; let her return to her mother's house, and you will be safe, unless the midwife persists in maintaining that you incited her to procure abortion.

  28. It's very funny that everyone persists in thinking that I am in love, though I saw M.

  29. In most of cases of laminitis in the fore feet the animal persists in standing until he is nearly recovered.

  30. He may lie down, though mostly he persists in standing, and the opposite limb becomes greatly swollen from bearing the entire weight and strain for so long a time.

  31. As a consequence, the opposite leg is required to do the work of both, and if the animal persists in standing a greater part of the time it, too, becomes swollen.

  32. When affected with pneumonia a horse does not lie down, but persists in standing from the beginning of the attack.

  33. The horse persists in standing throughout the attack.

  34. Finally, laminatis of the opposite foot may happen if the patient persists in standing, or lockjaw may cause early death.

  35. If the pain still persists a dose of laudanum (1 ounce for an adult) may be given.

  36. No doubt recumbency diminishes the amount of blood sent to the feet, and may greatly relieve the pain, so that forcing the patient to lie down may be tried, yet should not be renewed if he thereafter persists in standing.

  37. The first inquirer asks: "What is the best way to get rid of an excarnate human being who persists in occupying one's body?

  38. As the memory of childhood lives in the brain of the man, so the memory of all the hundreds of incarnations persists in the causal body and is an eternal possession of the ego.

  39. Let me feel if they are hot," she persists anxiously and her cool fingers barely touch my cheek which I hastily draw aside.

  40. But laugh as I will at Alicia, she persists obstinately in her wish.

  41. The hunger of the human heart for knowledge of God persists though all the old religious systems may prove illusions.

  42. The plain question whether the dead can communicate with the living persists in spite of the imperfections of the answer.

  43. But he must have a nurse; for at night, when Mademoiselle Florentine is at the theatre, he persists in going out, and takes things that are irritating and injurious to his malady and its treatment.

  44. She is the youngest creature I know," persists Margaret, in her sweet angelic way, that is all charity, all kindness and all forbearance.

  45. You refused me," persists he, in a dull tone.

  46. Denis puts in the third place that uniformity, like to that of the Angels, by which the soul, laying aside all else, persists in the simple contemplation of God.

  47. All our evidence has tended to show that the telepathic power itself is a variable thing; that it shows itself in flashes, for the most part spontaneously, and seldom persists through a series of deliberate experiments.

  48. He has transformed the sheet of paper into a spiritual agency;--nay, the mere memory of him persists as a source of energy in other minds.

  49. To similar illusions accompanying the departure of sleep, as when a dream-figure persists for a few moments into waking life, I have given the name *hypnopompic.

  50. A continuous series of memories, especially when the continuity persists after an interruption.

  51. In other words, there was introduced that peculiar three-class system which was already not unknown in the Prussian municipalities, and which, in both national and city elections, persists throughout the kingdom to the present day.

  52. The Pope persists in regarding himself as "the prisoner of the Vatican.

  53. So long as the Vatican persists in holding rigidly aloof from co-operation in the arrangement the Law obviously cannot be executed with the spontaneity and completeness that were intended by its framers.

  54. This custom persists as a striking survival of polyandry, in which fidelity under pain of dismissal from the roof-tree was imposed by the wife on all who shared her affections.

  55. Horrible and revolting as the very mention of cannibalism is to us, it should be remembered that it rested upon an attitude toward the foreigner and the slave that in some degree still persists everywhere in the world.

  56. Jehoiakim that my orders are not to be trifled with; and moreover, that if he persists in his stubbornness, I shall send sufficient force to drag him into my presence as a guilty culprit.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.