painstakingly
IPA: pˈeɪnsteɪkɪŋɫi
adverb
- In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
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Examples of "painstakingly" in Sentences
- She read the titles painstakingly: "Corn in California," "Silage
- You follow each and every word painstakingly, like watching grass grow.
- The man grimaces, but he signs his name painstakingly, gripping the stand.
- I like the way my tongue goes over "painstakingly", doing it very carefully, like I'm doing tongue tip-toeing.
- BLITZER: Light teams are back at work for what's being called a painstakingly hard search for the missing aviator, Steve Fossett.
- Being able to see it up close provides a view into the kind of painstakingly detailed work that not even the best binoculars could pick up.
- Dave Schulz, treasurer of the group, said the charter language was "painstakingly" reviewed by lawyers to retain the six district councilmen and to replace the six at-large councilmen with three "super-district" councilmen.
- Nin painstakingly copied into her diary her worst review, from among many bad reviews, by Elizabeth Hardwick, no less, who declared ‘no writer I can think of has more passionately embraced thin air’ and described her work as ‘vague, dreamy, mercilessly pretentious’.
- Not surprisingly, we lack detailed statistical evidence on when and how sexual behavior itself changed, but sociologists David Harding and Christopher Jencks have painstakingly pieced together survey data from a variety of sources on when and how norms changed, and specifically on the question of whether premarital sex was right or wrong.2
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