Example Sentences

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And with the advanced warning, their fans globally had been steeling themselves for this moment.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2023

They had been steeling themselves to watch the video over the coming weekend, when they were promised by the State House committee that they would see it before the public did.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

She forgot that a few minutes before she had been steeling herself against him.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

He had been steeling himself for the ordeal; schooling himself with arguments; fortressing his resolve, unconsciously, perhaps, with the picture of his own heroism in braving the unknown.

From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.

She had been steeling herself for weeks to meet him in an armour of conventional reserve.

From The Way of an Eagle by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)