bearing up
Example Sentences
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"She's bearing up really well. She is getting on with her life at university," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2021
Housebound, nervous, not quite sure how one’s partner is bearing up, looking for signs of anxiety — loving, supporting, alert to problems, ready to help.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2020
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
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
