Sample sentences for PERSEVERE

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Definition

to keep working at something — especially despite difficulties

persevere = to keep working at something despite difficulties

persevered = kept working at something despite difficulties

This in itself is dangerous since the branches are becoming precariously thin even for me, but I persevere.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

persevere = keep working at something despite difficulties

Mr. Gore was proud, ambitious, and persevering.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

persevering = continuing to work at something despite difficulties

persevering = continuing to work 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.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

persevere = keep working at something despite difficulties

They continued to walk onward, while the elder traveller exhorted his companion to make good speed and persevere in the path,
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown

persevere = keep working at something

Apparently she had revived enough to persevere in her profession.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persevere = keep working (at something) despite difficulties

"Gentle breeding," he continued, when I had found and scratched it, "and that you should try to live up to your name-" Atticus persevered in spite of us: "She asked me to tell you you must try to behave like the little lady and gentleman that you are."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persevered = kept working at something (to explain) despite difficulties

We do know in part what Mr. Ewell did: he did what any God-fearing, persevering, respectable white man would do under the circumstances—he swore out a warrant, no doubt signing it with his left hand, and Tom Robinson now sits before you, having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses—his right hand.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persevering = continuing despite difficulties

How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile?
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
He was ambitious enough to be contented with nothing short of the highest rank of overseers, and persevering enough to reach the height of his ambition.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
I persevere.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
Colonel Maycomb persevered in his efforts to make the region safe for democracy, but his first campaign was his last.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persevered = kept working (at something) despite difficulties

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.
George Orwell -- 1984

persevered = kept working at something despite difficulties

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
She tried her hand at all the arts in succession, but was too discouraged by the weakness of her first attempts to persevere.
Shaw, George Bernard -- An Unsocial Socialist
...if you have discovered nothing, at least you have had the good sense to persevere in your suspicions.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
How should I be able now to persevere in any path without your companionship?
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nurture and education.
Plato -- Crito

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