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Example sentences for "studious"

Lexicographically close words:
studio; studiorum; studios; studiose; studiosus; studiously; studium; studs; study; studye
  1. He merely stood there with studious and half-closed eyes, a serpent-like squint of venom on his colorless face.

  2. A look of guile crept into her studious eyes.

  3. She drew her cream-colored train across her knees with frugal and studious deliberateness.

  4. She sat there gazing at her reflected face, gazing at it with a sort of studious yet impersonal intentness.

  5. Occasionally he came upon some pressing appeal for money,--some urgent request for even a small remittance by the next post; and these he only smiled at, while he refolded them with a studious care and neatness.

  6. There the youth sat gazing steadfastly at the patient and studious features before him.

  7. Her brother, Count Roberto, had been ailing from his birth, and was a studious lad with a melancholy musing face such as you may see in some of Titian's portraits of young men.

  8. To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.

  9. Hiving wisdom with each studious year.

  10. Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

  11. Studious of men ‭ His sociable nature ever was.

  12. Since the Phæacians were not only dwellers by sea, but studious ‭also of sea qualities, their names seem to usurp their faculties ‭therein.

  13. In his own house ‭ An old Sicilian dame liv’d, studious ‭ To serve his sour age with her cheerful pains.

  14. These were John Mason Neale, the future eminent ecclesiologist and founder of the devoted Anglican Sisterhood of St. Margaret, and Harvey Goodwin, long afterwards the studious and large-minded Bishop of Carlisle.

  15. We cannot take you into the stately halls, the silent and venerable libraries, the solemn chapels, the studious old-world gardens.

  16. The sixth form consisted of four studious young ladies, whose goal in life for the present was an examination by one of the Universities, or, as the college phrase was, "the Cambridge Local.

  17. They are a sort of nominal Turns, that our Youth are wonderfully studious of, especially in their Prose Writings, and which conduce not a little to the Corruption of their Taste.

  18. Whoever is studious this Way, may consult the Writers of poetical History.

  19. He, who had pictured to himself a calm and delightful solitude, wherein he could give himself up entirely to his studious and contemplative tastes.

  20. For their quiet and studious lodger Van der Spijck and his wife had a profound regard.

  21. Faustina was still fond of admiration--the simple, studious ways of her husband were not to her liking.

  22. And though a good wish will fill no dish, And brim no cup with sack, Yet thoughts will spring as the glasses ring To illumine our studious track.

  23. He was not sixteen when his sojourn at Glasgow came to an end; and, for more than two years, he seems to have been left to a kind of studious independence, attending only a couple of law classes at Edinburgh University.

  24. A residence of three years in the country, indefatigable attention to the language, and a studious conformity with the customs of the people, had made him indistinguishable from a native when he chose to assume that character.

  25. He was a studious and, I believe, a learned young man, and there was no avoiding the fact that he possessed considerable influence over Elsie.

  26. This subject is particularly deserving of careful, candid, and studious attention, and only needs such investigation to demonstrate its soundness.

  27. With this end in view, the young man was sent to college, where he did well for a time, being naturally studious and intelligent; but after a brief period he began to drop behind his classes.

  28. Theophilus Opperdyke, the timorous, intensely studious Human Encyclopedia, stood at the window of John Thorwald's study room.

  29. On her right, her only neighbor was a studious looking lad absorbed in a newspaper.


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