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to keep working at something — especially despite difficulties- We will persevere through these difficult times. Better days are ahead.
persevere = to keep working at something despite difficulties
- Despite an injured ankle, she persevered in overtime to help her team win.
- This in itself is dangerous since the branches are becoming precariously thin even for me, but I persevere.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- Mr. Gore was proud, ambitious, and persevering.Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- I will be cool, persevering, and prudent.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- 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
- 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
- How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile?Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- Apparently she had revived enough to persevere in her profession.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- 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
- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
persevered = kept working at something despite difficulties
persevere = keep working at something despite difficulties
persevering = continuing to work at something despite difficulties
persevering = continuing to work at something despite difficulties
persevere = keep working at something despite difficulties
persevere = keep working at something
persevered = kept working at something despite difficulties
persevered = kept working at something despite difficulties