carrying on
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“Ryan dedicated his life to service, proudly carrying on his family’s legacy as a third-generation member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” Luna said in a statement Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Jeanie helped oversee another dynastic run in the 2000s, when the Lakers added five more trophies—all while carrying on a Hollywood romance with the team’s head coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
Later, the traffic cone guys reappeared, still smiling, still singing, still carrying on like they were having the time of their lives, which they undoubtedly are.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
They’re laughing and carrying on and Maput her sewing basket in her lap.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
We are within shelling distance, but the people in the farm have been living in the farm, carrying-on their ordinary work, without the young men right through everything, and the farm is absolutely undamaged.
From Letters from France by Isaac Alexander Mack
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
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
Rube Waddell and the boys in fact would choke on their chaws of tobacco if they could see some of the carryings-on at the ballparks these days.
From Time Magazine Archive
At times such carryings-on have been known to get out of hand.
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
