march on

phrasal verb

marched on; marching on; marches on

1

: to come toward (a place) in order to attack it

Enemy troops were marching on the city.

2

: to go or continue onward

Time marches on.

Governments come and go, but civilization marches on.

Examples of march on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Paramilitary police march on Tiananmen Square outside the Great Hall of the People before the closing ceremony of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing on March 12, 2009. —Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025

Time isn’t just marching on—your civilization is about to molt, caterpillar-style. —Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025

Instead, history will remember that the former reality TV star publicly denied losing and tried to hold onto power by falsely claiming voter fraud and encouraging a mob of his followers to march on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory. —Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2025

Will the Bhoys defy the odds, or will Bayern march on to the next round? —Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for march on

• anton
• argon
• axon
• baronne
• baryon
• baton
• boron
• buisson
• bygone
• capon
• cardon
• chiffon