How to Use soldier on in a Sentence

soldier on

phrasal verb
Definition of soldier onnext
  • Even then, Moby Grape soldiered on as a trio for a time.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 July 2024
  • But the soldiers on the ground saw something else happening.
    — Natalia Yermak, New York Times, 17 June 2023
  • And still the piers have soldiered on — built, destroyed, rebuilt — some over more than a hundred years, and evolved through the three stages of pier life.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • Davis jumped up and soldiered on, chuckling about it later.
    — Mark Woolsey, ajc, 16 June 2023
  • The artist, who has every right to change their mind and soldier on — even if their instincts to stop touring were correct in the first place?
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The rest of the Hawks soldiered on with a rotating series of drummers into 1966.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Some report seeing the ghosts of soldiers on the battlefield.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023
  • Now, Virgin Galactic plans to soldier on with just Eve for the time being.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The next day the convoy was stopped by a group of Japanese soldiers on the riverbank, five of whom boarded the Panay with bayonets fixed.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • That said, if the deal doesn’t go through, Activision will soldier on with a balance sheet that is bolstered by $12.6 billion in cash on the books.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 May 2023
  • Many soldiers on the front, including tens of thousands who have been fighting with little rest for more than two years, see the rule as a just and fair move.
    — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The construction workers who were supposed to build pads for the heavier R-14 missiles had not yet arrived, so the soldiers on hand had to do all the work.
    — Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The debate in Kyiv about mobilization — and to what degree the country should ramp it up — has angered soldiers on the front line.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Could the Space Force use that technology to beam power to remote areas to support soldiers on the ground?
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • According to videos posted by fans, Swift soldiered on after the heel broke off of one of her glittery Christian Louboutin boots.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The dancers serve as a Greek chorus, falling like soldiers on a battlefield or passing secrets along a chain.
    — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Kyiv’s soldiers on the front lines are in pressing need of ammunition to fend off Russia’s latest salvos.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Some people, said Stein, are saving the names of their soldiers on their phones or keeping the name in a prominent place as a reminder of their commitment.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The project soldiered on, during the course of which subsequent changes in Group 5 rules relegated the M1 to Group 4 competition.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 19 June 2023
  • Queen Camilla was welcomed to the Royal Lancers’ base with a military salute, inspected 152 soldiers on parade and gave a brief speech.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Kyiv, pressed for time and needing its soldiers on the frontlines, struggles to dispatch the majority of its soldiers abroad for training.
    — Alexandra Chinchilla and Sam Rosenberg, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Normand tries to soldier on with live commentary from the stage, but he, too, is escorted out of the building by security.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
  • See Chicago Dance moved its free pop-up performances to the summer in 2021, when dance outside had become one way to soldier on during the pandemic.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2024
  • Despite being past its prime, the diminutive Porsche soldiered on in competition through 1974.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 24 July 2023
  • For any place suffering distress, Gdańsk is a shining example of how to soldier on against all odds, how to rebuild and hold one's head high in the face of adversity.
    — Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The 3-year-old German shepherd, who had accompanied Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the war, underwent emergency surgery that saved his life.
    — Justin Spike, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • Israeli soldiers on the border with Lebanon have also used a catapult rarely used by military forces since the 16th century.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 14 June 2024
  • One viral TikTok video featured a woman who identified herself as a former soldier on the Gaza Strip.
    — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Explosions suddenly detonated inside the trenches and other strikes hit soldiers on the edge of the tree line.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • Just this past weekend, a top campaign staffer reshared a video with an image of DeSantis, a Nazi symbol interposed over the Florida flag, and soldiers on the march.
    — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 25 July 2023

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