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Persisted in sentence

177 examples of Persisted in a sentence

And we persisted, and we got 450 guys growing mustaches, and together we raised 54,000 dollars, and we donated every cent of that to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, and that represented at the time the single biggest donation they'd ever received.
So again we persisted, and Foster's Brewing came to the party and gave us our first ever sponsorship, and that was enough for me to quit my job, I did consulting on the side.
And the voice persisted, days and then weeks of it, on and on, narrating everything I did in the third person.
But she was undaunted, and she persisted.
In London, the day they turned the congestion pricing on, there was a 25 percent decrease in congestion overnight, and that's persisted for the four years in which they've been doing congestion pricing.
The connotation of nobility and authority has persisted around words of French origin.
And the connotation of peasantry, real people, salt of the Earth, has persisted around Saxon words.
The king's rich legacy persisted for generations and to this day, there are mausoleums, libraries and mosques that stand as a testament to this golden age of Mali's history.
And this fear even persisted after I started my own company.
Sadly, this hoax narrative has persisted, and there are still people in Nigeria today who believe that the Chibok girls were never kidnapped.
He was ousted last year, but we've seen recently that the problems have persisted.
But I persisted.
How we weathered and persisted, tenacious, no stone unturned.
Yet they merely persisted for a while, declining without innovating, becoming living fossils.
The mystery persisted for about 20 years.
But what exactly is this disease, and how has this pathogen persisted for so long?
I felt that development could never actually happen, so long as corruption persisted.
It’s possible that nails have simply persisted as a side effect of primates evolving wider, more dexterous fingers.
They persisted.
This persisted all the way into and through the Renaissance.
Even if the Tay-Sachs mutation persisted because carriers were more likely to survive, reproduce and pass on their genetic material, why did this resistance mechanism proliferate among the Ashkenazi population in particular?
Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years.
Really I just wanted to get up and leave during the whole movie, but I persisted.
I persisted in the hope that maybe the storyline would get better, that there might be a good twist at the end.
In the end I persisted because I figured I could write a bad review for it if anything after watching it.
After thinking that it may just be my mood, I stopped the film and chose to start it fresh in the morning, but the same feeling persisted.
About 1 minute into the film I knew it was going to be a stinker, but I persisted to the end...and was not rewarded for my persistence.
He persisted in martyring himself to bring to light the lack of support for flyers and to promote the air "force" as a new and integrated branch of military defense.
At first I found it boring but as I persisted watching the show I realised it that it's not that boring after all.
My original thoughts on what will happen really didn't matter anymore as I quickly lost the will to live but persisted for almost 80 minutes, by this point I'd had enough and flicked to the end.
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