persisted

For passengers, beyond the statistics lies a puzzle that has persisted for years.

I bridled, too, at the unsolicited advice she persisted in giving my friends.

In the early 1900s, African Americans moved to Detroit to escape the inequality and injustice that persisted in the South.

In 1991 you married Kelly Preston, yet still stories persisted that you hit on men in hotel and country club shower rooms.

Yet still gay desires and cultures existed, persisted, and endured.

Her hope persisted until half-past nine: it then began to fade, and, at ten o'clock, was extinct.

"But I don't quite see that," persisted Spunyarn, strong in his idea that the man who fights a duel is a fool.

"Thet ain't nuther here nor thar in what we air sayin'," persisted Aunt Ri.

Whatever was his motive, he persisted in his resolution, and to the end was faithful to his oath.

They were now quite tractable and never persisted in doing anything against our wishes.