Examples of “persistence” in a Sentence

noun The quality of continuing to try despite difficulty.

• Her persistence eventually paid off when the company agreed to a refund.
• With patient persistence, he finally learned to swim the full length of the pool.
• Success in learning a language often comes down to simple persistence.

noun In computing, the property of data continuing to exist after a program has stopped running.

• Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
• The app uses a database to ensure data persistence between sessions.
• Good persistence means your saved settings are still there after the computer restarts.
• The developer added a file for persistence so the game could remember scores.