How to Use soldier on in a Sentence

soldier on

phrasal verb
  • But the soldiers on the ground saw something else happening.
    Natalia Yermak, New York Times, 17 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In mid-December, the news came that Israeli soldiers on patrol in Gaza City accidentally shot three hostages whose captors had been killed.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The vast majority of it is marked with multiple lines of barbed wire and guarded over by heavily armed North and South Korean soldiers on either side.
    Tucker Reals, CBS News, 19 July 2023
  • But Worsham soldiered on, refusing to chase bro-country trends and instead committing himself to pursuits that brought him joy.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Young adults with assault rifles slung over their shoulders are a common sight in Israel, where hundreds of thousands are soldiers on active duty or reservists with weapons stashed at home.
    Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Jim was assigned to the 92nd Signal Battalion and trained to string telephone cable to allow soldiers on the battlefield to communicate with officers in the rear.
    Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The ad comes as the Kremlin’s invasion is centered on the grueling battle for the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, in which ammunition and soldiers on both sides have been severely drained.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines have said that low-flying Russian helicopters have been successful in attacking their ground forces in part because Ukraine is unable to threaten them in kind.
    Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Derided by climate change skeptics and pundits for decades, and subjected to memes making light of his concern about global warming, Gore soldiers on.
    USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024

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