How to Use life goes on in a Sentence
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And life goes on and things are gonna be okay for everybody...
—Rosemary Rossi, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
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Yet on that side of the border, life goes on peacefully.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2022
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But times change, life goes on, interests wax and wane.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
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Everything is gonna be; things happen and life goes on.
—Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
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Despite all, life goes on in Kyiv, a capital renowned for its nightlife before the war.
—Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
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History proves that life goes on—but this time seems different.
—Fay Vincent, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
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Then as life goes on, you get hit with so many things: losing the mother of my children, losing my girlfriend; just being hurt, down and lost.
—Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2023
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Meanwhile, life goes on: a mother hen and her chicks walk into and out of the clinic; a doctor teaches his staff to meditate.
—The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
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Flight attendants order the passenger to change shirts, the passenger makes a TikTok about it, and life goes on.
—Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
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The lyrics talk about a relationship that is over and a reminder that life goes on, and Sech proposes: be happy and dance reggaetón.
—Billboard, 5 Aug. 2021
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Even so, life goes on somewhat unabated for those lucky enough to have a financial cushion.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
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And while the court case is happening, life goes on at home for mother and son, an inevitably uneasy setup (with a pivotal role played by Daniel’s dog, Snoop).
—Nicolas Rapold, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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Kyiv and many Ukraine cities have been relentlessly hammered by Russian attacks − but life goes on.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
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However, life goes on, and Isabella had little choice but to figure out how to live in a strange royal ménage à trois.
—Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
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Another lesson, of course, is that no matter how devastating a loss might be, life goes on.
—Joe Nocera, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
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And when life goes on, and college sports remain as popular as ever, and somehow the entire system doesn’t implode?
—Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 10 June 2021
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In more rural or smaller destinations, such as along the French Riviera, life goes on pretty much as usual.
—Xiaofei Xu, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
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People there have long decorated their homes around the time of the winter solstice with evergreen plants as a reminder that life goes on through the darkest days of winter.
—Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
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Taranenko says the tours represent a chance for Ukraine to highlight its citizens' spirit of defiance as well as showing the outside world that life goes on, even in a war.
—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
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From concerts to football games, life goes on in Southern California, even with Hilary.
—Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
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For now, the watch continues, and the cycle of crypto life goes on, driven ever forward by the relentless currents of innovation and the ceaseless movements of the whales.
—Jon Stojan, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2023
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There is no lesson beyond the fact that life goes on in prison — and that, for all its surprises, is a slice of American life that often goes unexamined and unexpressed.
—New York Times, 27 July 2022
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McDonald’s presence is a reminder that life goes on no matter what happens on fall Saturdays.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
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Of course, the regime going to great lengths to maintain the impression that life goes on as normal, and to a degree, this is true: formally, in 2023, the country’s GDP and real incomes of the population are growing.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
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That life goes on, and cars still roll by, and people trudge past places which, though history has happened in them, are still places where human time reigns—this is a truth rendered only more urgent by its obviousness.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
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All the while, life goes on at Edmondson, with exams, games, music classes, greetings when students enter the building and the same ending to the afternoon announcements as Perry has done for years.
—Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
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And though discussion about increasing diversity in all aspects of American life goes on and some changes have been adopted, advocates so far see little systemic progress.
—Glenn Gamboa, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
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Juri Kobayashi Mutability and transformation, rot, decay, new growth from the old — the mechanisms by which life goes on — all figure into Munch’s absorbing take on the natural world.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
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