bearing up

Example Sentences

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Ms Blanco Rayo says her daughter is bearing up well, but that some girls "won't even leave their house".

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2023

It’s 1940 and Britain is bearing up under the Blitz when a government agent asks Maisie to investigate the murder of an American war correspondent.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019

“She seemed very strong and really bearing up very well, I thought,” she recalled.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2018

But life among the little women isn’t all bearing up under adversity, even if the March girls lack the guile of Becky Sharp, the peerless schemer in Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2018

But I didn’t feel brave nor like bearing up.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier