Sample Sentences for
persevere
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  • This in itself is dangerous since the branches are becoming precariously thin even for me, but I persevere.  (source)
    persevere = keep working at something despite difficulties
  • In such a universe, it seems ridiculous and foolhardy to attempt a creation of one's own, but still, I persevere.  (source)
  • How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile?  (source)
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  • They continued to walk onward, while the elder traveller exhorted his companion to make good speed and persevere in the path,  (source)
    persevere = keep working at something
  • The first time he tried to smoke it made him sick, but he persevered, and spun the packet out for a long time, smoking half a cigarette after each meal.  (source)
    persevered = kept working at something despite difficulties
  • Mr. Gore was proud, ambitious, and persevering.  (source)
    persevering = continuing to work at something despite difficulties
  • But Blore went on, ploddingly, perseveringly: "And then she was out—in her mackintosh, said she'd been down to look at the sea."†  (source)
  • Only the artist perseveres in such circumstances.†  (source)
  • Seneca saith a good word, doubteless: He saith he can no difference find Betwixt a man that is out of his mind, And a man whiche that is drunkelew:* *a drunkard <11> But that woodness,* y-fallen in a shrew,* *madness **one evil-tempered Persevereth longer than drunkenness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She persevereth" in older English, today we say "She perseveres."
  • Somehow, in these terrible circumstances, my mother and I found the will to persevere.†  (source)
  • Yes, the divorce was quite painful, but the family struggled through it and persevered.†  (source)
  • On Miss Lucas's persevering, however, she added, "Very well, if it must be so, it must."†  (source)
  • But the old man sucked perseveringly at the bread between his toothless gums.†  (source)
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