persevered
Example Sentences
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He persevered and learned a valuable lesson: patience still pays off.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
She persevered and graduated from a high school special education program, then attempted community college.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
Warwickshire's seamers persevered nobly, with Ethan Bamber and Beau Webster most threatening, but the fourth-wicket pair batted with solid technique and total concentration.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
He’d recently been nervous about starting a new activity, but he’d persevered, and so I said to him, “I’m proud of how well you dealt with that challenge.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
They covered the secretary’s table, the reading desk, the stools—dreary papers of government, still bravely persevered in—of law, still to be codified—of commissariat and of armament and of orders for the day.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
