tenacious

Preposition: of

• life: It is very tenacious of life - and easily transported alive in damp moss.

Modifies a noun

• loam: It is a stiff, tenacious loam, mixed with flint stones.
• midfielder: Steve is a tenacious midfielder who made his Tranmere debut in Brian Little's first league game in charge against Oldham in October 2003.
• killer: Routine is a tenacious killer of passion?a suspect in the deaths of over 1 million steamy romances.
• clay: The soil is chiefly a tenacious red clay and partly a gravelly loam.
• defense: Unfortunately Kenilworth turned the ball over and, despite tenacious defense from Oliver Wilson, scored.
• attitude: Strauss ' men halted a trot of four straight limited-overs series defeats with a tenacious attitude in the NatWest Series finale.

Modifying Another Word

• typically: Ulamek rode particularly well to deny Lindback another race victory, whilst a typically tenacious Gafurov kept Davidsson at bay.
• very: Trends especially the long term ones are usually very tenacious in their nature, taking several months in normal market conditions to flip.
• so: Why has the term ' High Renaissance ' proved so tenacious?
• remarkably: However, some old theories have proved remarkably tenacious.
• extremely: They are extremely tenacious, often chasing their prey to the end.
• not: But no one can say that Harriet is not tenacious.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: However, some old theories have proved remarkably tenacious.
• remain: Child marriage, which the new code seeks to finally eliminate, remains tenacious - and not only in Turkey's conservative heartland.