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How to use manfully in a sentence

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The decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell.
Dad would refuse to speak to us all for a week as he manfully kept his secret hypochondriacal worries to himself.
However, Rice's trademark grin soon returned when Clough came back struggling manfully with 30 Orange Maid ice lollies.
He toiled manfully with the task, bravely maintaining that the national picture was not as grim as the newspapers would have us believe.
And so, eventually arriving at the counter, I manfully demanded a box of Durex.
Where they strove manfully for their effects, he wrote poems whose cadence leads one to believe that they had just floated out.
The young gentleman listens manfully to my abortive attempts to demonstrate my interest with a light smile, while I slowly turn an inelegant purple.
The rest of the crew had set off from San Francisco around the same time as us but were manfully doing without sleep and so were around 10 hours ahead of us.
As the match wound down, the Germans manfully held their rearguard together, but only just.
The semi-final victory was vindication for many of the US players, who defended manfully against the world's top-ranked team.
England coped manfully without him, but they will rue his absence if Australia continue to fight hard today and finally top 400 for the first time in the series.
You cannot win without scoring, and aside from Rooney, who was trying so manfully to be all things to England's attack, nobody but Owen was going to finish the job.
He manfully fielded tough questions about precisely how brilliant his leadership was and the personal toll of improving the lives of every living creature in his kingdom.
For centuries, artists struggled manfully with ways of codifying the idea of reported speech in graphic form.
Tyson has always maintained that, while Douglas boxed manfully in Tokyo, his victory was essentially a fluke.
And with that he pulled his flat cap firmly down over his eyes, gave Nicole a sharp tug on her choke chain and strode off manfully back towards Hollywood.
It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to be envied, but Lieutenant Dubosc performed his part manfully.
While Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow pound manfully on the door, Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith knock politely, little preparing you for the emotional ferociousness with which they plan on making themselves at home.
Nephew of the iconic Rigobert, he has stepped up manfully into Arsenal's midfield following a string of injuries to Arsene Wenger's Premier League side.
Unlike little Spacer, he never confronted his dashed hopes manfully.
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We were borne inside, struggling manfully, but held secure most womanfully, in spite of our best endeavors.
Ay, I could do it manfully, too, if I were not carrying along with me memories of long ago.
The other was John Grueby, who had stood by him so manfully at Westminster.
We bucketed down that hillside like men possessed, even Blenkiron sticking on manfully among the twists and turns and slithers.
Phil manfully works for a year cancelling his father's debt, and then escapes.
Phil manfully works for a year, cancelling his father's debt, and then escapes.
During this time, however, his anger took a thirsty form, and he swigged away at the Schiedam most manfully.
In the presence of the charming woman he had manfully suppressed his feelings.
Disagreeable as the necessity was, it could not be avoided, and Mr. Gallatin met it manfully.
This brought him face to face with his opportunity, and he seized it manfully.
They had now a barricade that could not be easily broken, if but manfully defended.
It is a mass of dumb instincts and allegiances, the love of a certain quality of life, to be maintained manfully.
He put his arms manfully about the waistline of the flowery blouse.
So long as hope remained to us we struggled on manfully enough.
He arose manfully and smote the tuning fork sharply on the table.
The learning to take it manfully is what as individuals we get out of it.
So long as we were in pilotage I stuck manfully to the wheel.
Perspiring from every pore, we labour manfully on to the bitter end.
She described to us how tenderly he had taken leave of her, and how manfully and quietly he had borne himself.
When at last we were really alone, I turned and looked at Nicolete striding manfully at my side, just to make sure that it was really true.
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