carrying on
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She explains that her parents used to bring her and her twin sister, and now she's carrying on the tradition with the next generation.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
"We're still carrying on, because everything had been prepared in advance: the equipment, the repairs, the licence, the taxes," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
He became a rare symbol of institutional continuity: A regular bit-part character keeping calm and carrying on during a merry-go-round of political change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
He endured the long weeks alone at sea by meditating and carrying on conversations with the ocean and wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
And last of all came the two high priests of Anubis, carrying on a flower-strewn plank the dead body of Prince Pete-ho-tep.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
It was less of an axiom than an ethos for a carrying-on, proud people:
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2014
Ms. Murphy juxtaposes the comedy, the heartache and the carrying-on with a deft hand, so that sentimentality is kept at bay.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2010
Well, there couldn’t have been any carrying-on down at the store or we’d have heard about it long time ago.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“That’s what she’s struggling with. The carrying-on part. Is she there?”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Under these circumstances the task of carrying-on involved a strain, lessened, as always on such occasions, by management of everything for the best by Battalion Headquarters.
From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose
Most of the lame comedic scenes in the opera involve Strauss’s attempts to depict the baron’s absurd carryings-on.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2019
But the Sick Crew's carryings-on form only the mundane, or Profane, surface of this weird chronicle.
From Time Magazine Archive
What with Hewlett's carryings-on and the crowds of people tramping in and out to look at her living-room ceiling.
From Time Magazine Archive
All in all, his carryings-on kept him in solitary for 42 of his 54 years in prison, a record for U.S. penitentiaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once she was complaining about the carryings-on at the jook and Tea Cake snapped, “Aw, don’t make God look so foolish—findin’ fault wid everything He made.”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
