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How to use the word painstaking in a Sentence?

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...it's often mistaken to accept something as true merely because it's obvious. The truth is only arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue.

Sherlock Holmes

added by milly_b
1 year ago

To make sure Australotitan was a different species, we needed to compare its bones to the bones of other species from Queensland and globally. This was a very long and painstaking task.

Scott Hocknull

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everyday there are active interviews and actions being taken to find the people responsible for taking Jenniferor the people with the information to piece it all together, it's painstaking work.

Jennifer Kesse

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We do a lot of painstaking research into how real animals move, how their muscles and skin behave ... and then in the computer, we recreate all these things, an artist, like an animator, has to sit down and actually hand animate that eye, hand animate that face so that every little subtle nuance is represented.

Adam Valdez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The engineers that were designing a lot of these things were not thinking Were going to preserve this forever for all of humankind, they were thinking about how to successfully get somebody to the moon. The team travels from Tampa to Cape Canaveral to document the dilapidated sites in painstaking detail in order to better understand the site layout, extent and condition. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP For every week they spend on the Space Coast recording data, Collins said they are in their lab for a month processing the information.

Fox News/Allie Raffa -RRB- Collins

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This kind of archaeological work is painstaking and difficult under any circumstances, but the physical conditions of this particular site — zero visibility, high currents and potential entanglements — made this an especially difficult shipwreck to work on.

Dave Conlin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This case has been painstaking and painful for all involved.

Beth McCann

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Ruby Roman grapes look big and red -- like a ruby. It's been a painstaking process to achieve that red color.

Ruby Roman

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Ukash's removal from the battlefield is a significant blow to al-Shabaab and reflects the painstaking work by our intelligence, military, and law enforcement professionals.

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was a mind-set characterized by a preference for military action over diplomacy, a mind-set that put a premium on U.S. action over the painstaking work of building international consensus. A mind-set that exaggerated threats beyond what the intelligence supported.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Maria Montessori

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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