persists
Example Sentences
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Why the Monarchy Persists: As long as there has been a monarchy, there have been questions about its legitimacy.
From New York Times • May 6, 2023
Famine Persists in Niger, but Denial Seems in the Past NIAMEY, Niger — Outside the state food warehouses here, women sift in the dirt for spilled grains of rice.
From New York Times • May 4, 2010
A FAINT, sickening scent of irises Persists all morning.
From Amores Poems by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Ah, no; the heart, the mind Persists in hoping,—schemes and strives That there may linger with our kind Some memory of our little lives.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
A faint, sickening scent of irises Persists all morning.
From Some Imagist Poets An Anthology by Aldington, Richard
