plugging away

Example Sentences

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It keeps plugging away without taking breaks to eat, sleep, answer emails, pick the kids up from school and watch the Knicks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

"There's gonna be times throughout the years that you fall short, you get back up and dust yourself off and keep plugging away -- Sam's been that steadying force," added Macdonald.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

But there is no doubting her remarkable capacity to keep bouncing back and to keep on plugging away, when others would have been down and out years ago.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

While other nostalgic food brands have gone wild with gimmicks or leaned into flashy marketing, Spangler just keeps plugging away, making candy that everyone in America has adored for basically their entire lives.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2024

With a few months of plugging away, however, our storefront Temple One about tripled its membership.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey