steady-going
Example Sentences
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Fourteen years ago he quit the New York Sun, on which he had been a steady-going "wheelhorse" reporter of the Frank Ward O'Malley period, to work for Publicist Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before Christmas in 1886, Harriette Flora, aged 17, married a steady-going 19-year-old Arkansas country boy named Carl Raymond Gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throughout most of a typical performance, the English rock quartet called The Who live up to their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group."
From Time Magazine Archive
Impartial House observers rate him thus: a steady-going unimaginative partisan plodder, thoroughly conservative in his fiscal policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ralph was a bit of a rake, but local opinion regarded William as a steady-going, domesticated man who would uphold the family traditions.
From The Bartlett Mystery by Tracy, Louis
