industrious - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: According to Lilly, this pale violet star sharpens the understanding, memory, and makes men industrious.

Modifies a noun

  • habit: I have known persons of the most industrious habits complain of " the little which they do in a day " .
  • man: The deceased was a particulary industrious man, having brought up a large family with scarcely any assistance from the parish.
  • poor: The fund provided loans at interest to the industrious poor, who had to provide some form of security for the loan.
  • class: But he strongly objected to the transportation of the industrious classes.
  • person: She seems to be the most normal one in the family and from all reports is rather a decent and industrious person.
  • people: Why not extend the suffrage to the industrious people - the working people.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: The farmers here are very industrious - growing crops on every spare piece of land.
  • so: I hate killing them - they are so industrious - but their excavations are taking over my garden!
  • equally: Turner's prolific research interests made him an equally industrious writer and editor.
  • particularly: One thing no one ever called him was lazy, and today's schedule was particularly industrious.
  • exceedingly: In climates and regions removed from the tropics only the exceedingly industrious survived.
  • immensely: Moreover, 73 several other respondents stressed that Gowan was a highly gifted scientist, scrupulous in his attention to detail and immensely industrious.

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