stick-to-it-iveness

How to use stick-to-it-iveness in a sentence

• But thus put in his place, Joe could assume all the irritable stick-to-itiveness of a child.

  Stubble | George Looms

• The English youth's courage and stick-to-itiveness made Dave doggedly refuse to permit himself to rest even for a moment.

  Dave Dawson at Dunkirk | Robert Sydney Bowen

• Most hunters would have given up now, but there is no end to the dogged stick-to-itiveness of the Weasel; besides, he was hungry.

  Bannertail | Ernest Thompson Seton

• The Salesman needs the quality of dogged determination, persistence, and "stick-to-itiveness."

  The Psychology of Salesmanship | William Walker Atkinson

• I don't like him, but I must admire his 'stick-to-itiveness.'

  Boy Scouts in Southern Waters | G. Harvey Ralphson