be industrious
Example Sentences
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Six-year-olds like to be industrious and independent, and they feel good when they contribute in a real way.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
“I gave Teddy my own number: 322. There are certain times when it’s good to be smart and certain times when it’s good to be industrious, but that night it was good to be lucky.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2019
Australia will be industrious and dogged, but this team lacks the pedigree of previous incarnations.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
"I was obliged to be industrious," he said.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Eben, another of Jane's sons, would be industrious and frugal, it was ten to one, his uncle said, that he would get rich; for he seemed to have spirit and activity.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
