"persistent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One particularly persistent suitor sent Jane postcards every day.
- Another version has Lucy taking her own eyes out in order to discourage a persistent suitor who admired them.
- One rejected but persistent suitor warns, "I'm a hard dog to get out from under the porch."
- One persistent suitor took her into a hotel room and committed what Goldman called "violent contact"; two biographers call it rape.
- However, Finch proved a persistent suitor and the couple was finally married on 15 May 1684.
- For a long time they continued their "flirtation act" with Burns as Allen's most persistent suitor.
- Females of high rank arrange create networks of female alliances; together, they fight away persistent suitors.
- Startled, I thought that perhaps one of my persistent suitors had trailed me.
- He is a young soldier and oboist and one of Vicky's persistent suitors.
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