Example Sentences

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For now, while they yearn for the day when they can return to their usual campaign playbooks, weary awards consultants are soldiering on and hoping for the best.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2022

Film festivals and arthouses are soldiering on as best as they virtually can, but their impact is a fraction of what it was.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2020

But some DOE lab facilities — and in particular its synchrotron light sources and four supercomputing centres — are soldiering on, and contributing work to COVID-19 research.

From Nature • Mar. 30, 2020

Rather than dwelling on potential disappointment, these candidates are soldiering on with scores of town halls, house parties as well as breakfasts and dinners with supporters.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2020

Stillwell, some of my boys think that when we are soldiering here in 'God's Country,' they ought to have soft bread to eat.

From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander