carrying on
Example Sentences
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Who do you see as a younger musician carrying on what you guys do?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
"I feel like some are still carrying on despite everything, like me. I was in the salon when a loud explosion went off, and no-one even flinched," she says.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
For Hamawy’s part, he said he’s running with the hopes of carrying on the work that Watson Coleman has been doing in Congress up to this point.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2026
The dancing and carrying on by the secondary characters mostly feels like filler.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Mom was carrying on about how things had gotten so desperate around the house that we didn’t have anything to eat except margarine, and now that was gone, too.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
