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[ UK /pˌɜːsɪvˈi‍ə/ ]
[ US /pɝsəˈvɪɹ/ ]
VERB
  1. be persistent, refuse to stop
    he persisted to call me every night
    The child persisted and kept asking questions

How To Use persevere In A Sentence

  • However she has agreed to persevere, albeit rather frostily.
  • `I'll persevere with anything that might rid me of this pestilence. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
  • Alfred persevered, first inventing the blasting cap and then discovering that a silicaceous earth, kieselguhr, would stabilize nitroglycerin, thus making dynamite. Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
  • Lear's book of parrots was an immediate success and no doubt had he persevered with his ornithological studies he would have achieved immortality as a new Audubon.
  • Despite a number of setbacks, they persevered in their attempts to fly around the world in a balloon.
  • There seems to be little doubt that work-inhibited students have limited faith in their ability to persevere in academic life.
  • That's what it means to glorify Him as you lie in that bed, sit in that wheelchair, or persevere through that depression. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
  • It can be tricky at first, but persevere.
  • There seems to be little doubt that work-inhibited students have limited faith in their ability to persevere in academic life.
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