STEADFASTLY in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for STEADFASTLY, such as:

1. Eustacia regarded the youth steadfastly.
2. The Doctor looked on her, henceforth, as steadfastly as she on him.
3. I clenched my hands and steadfastly looked into the glaring eyeballs.
4. She stood there, looking steadfastly towards them, and listening to his departing steps.
5. The young girl, perceiving that there was something extraordinary, looked at him steadfastly.

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 Meanings and Examples of STEADFASTLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
steadfastly
 ad.  with resolute determination
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  She stood there, looking steadfastly towards them, and listening to his departing steps.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
2  She was so steadfastly occupied, that many minutes elapsed before she looked up from her work; when she did so Mr. Bounderby bespoke her attention with a hitch of his head.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
3  Her father might instinctively have loosened his hold, but that he felt her strength departing from her, and saw a wild dilating fire in the eyes steadfastly regarding him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
4  Eustacia regarded the youth steadfastly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
5  The pupils of his eyes, fixed steadfastly on blankness, were vaguely lit with an icy shine; his mouth had passed into the phase more or less imaginatively rendered in studies of Oedipus.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
6  I clenched my hands and steadfastly looked into the glaring eyeballs.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
7  Hester Prynne," said he, leaning over the balcony and looking down steadfastly into her eyes, "thou hearest what this good man says, and seest the accountability under which I labour.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
8  She looked very steadfastly at Mr. Peggotty when he stood before her; and he looked quite as steadfastly at her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
9  The Doctor looked on her, henceforth, as steadfastly as she on him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
10  She looked so steadfastly at me: with a kind of doubt, or pity, or suspense in her affection: that I summoned the stronger determination to show her a perfectly cheerful face.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
11  The young girl, perceiving that there was something extraordinary, looked at him steadfastly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
12  An hour had nearly passed, during which Valentine, breathless and motionless, watched steadfastly over Morrel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
13  When his servant entered, he looked at him steadfastly and wondered if he had thought of peering behind the screen.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
14  Yes," he continued, coming closer to him and looking steadfastly into his stern eyes, "I shall show you my soul.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
15  She was even sensible of some pleasure, though mixed with regret, on finding how steadfastly both she and her uncle had been persuaded that affection and confidence subsisted between Mr. Darcy and herself.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
Example Sentence:
1  Penelope was steadfast in her affections, faithfully waiting for Ulysses to return from his wanderings.
2  To her legion of steadfast admirers, the Nobel Peace Prize winner's ascendance to "sanctified" status may look as inevitable as it is justified.
3  The group remained steadfast in its support for the new system, even when it was criticized in the newspapers.