Example Sentences

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With both faiths industriously seeking converts, competition and outside engagement is inevitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

The problem is that when the payoffs arrive, they’re deflatingly familiar — the show has gone from lovingly echoing 1980s touchstones to industriously copying itself.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

The 51-year-old also said he was "industriously writing" and hoping to publish books "in due course", and that the Feltham job centre in west London was monitoring his progress every week.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2022

We'd always start industriously, divvying up the wet and dry ingredient measurements, then combining and whisking the eggy batter while Mom's biggest pot of salted water came to a boil.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2021

“And this morning, just a few minutes ago, you were over there, with the children—” Gabe nodded toward the corner of the room where the two little ones were industriously piling blocks into towers.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry