How to Use march on in a Sentence

march on

phrasal verb
  • All of them marched on, mute save for the squealing of the wheels.
    Alida Becker, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • All four men marched on D.C. streets in the weeks before the insurrection.
    Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • From the city of Nablus in the north to Hebron in the south, young men marched on Israeli checkpoints, throwing stones and burning tires in the streets.
    Dalia Hatuqa, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The next year, that deal collapsed, and rebel groups launched an armed march on the capital, Bangui.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • But for the most part, the Rose Parade marched on without disruption.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The second day there was to be a massive march on the nation’s capital.
    John Leland, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The dispute reached a climax on June 23, when Prigozhin turned his fighters around to march on Moscow.
    Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Prigozhin had launched a mutiny in June, taking over the southern city of Rostov and marching on Moscow.
    WSJ, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But history has marched on, and Scholz has been slow to recognize it.
    Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Tens of thousands of Israelis marched on Jerusalem last week, and slept in tents outside parliament.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
  • The Wolverines punted on each of their first three possessions of the second half before the Tide marched on an eight-play, 55-yard touchdown drive.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Advertisement The group marched on the Sky Way over Sepulveda, shutting down all lanes of the bridge that feeds into the airport.
    Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Students, in turn, marched on Brand’s residence and burned him in effigy.
    Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • With all of those factors swirling overhead or through governmental offices miles away, the crews march on.
    Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • As time marched on, technology became a part of the depth-searching effort.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Even though the Russian ruble has fallen to staggering lows this year, the economy has managed to march on.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Still, hard evidence is not needed for the House to march on with an impeachment inquiry, said Stanley Brand, a former top lawyer for the House.
    Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, expressed anger at how his forces had been used and treated and ordered a march on Moscow.
    Fox News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • After winning the title in 2022, the team extended Poole, left Draymond’s contract up in the air for the moment, and marched on into the New Year, sure that nothing would go wrong.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Hasina fled to India by helicopter last week as tens of thousands of protesters marched on her home.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • One of the ideas was to encourage Trump supporters, via social media, to march on the Capitol on January 6th.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The future might not be as bright, shiny or bulletproof as it was cracked up to be, but science nevertheless marches on.
    Heard Editors, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The whole march on Washington was planned and solved and executed in eight weeks, which is phenomenal.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Early in 1941, the two men started organizing a march on Washington, to take place that July.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The march on al-Shifa caused the hospital’s operations to collapse.
    Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Emmanuel Macron marched on to the stage in 2017, a boyish spring in his step and a breathless excitement in his victory speech: The grand entrance to his presidency.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • The longtime organizer promised tens of thousands of people would march on the convention no matter what.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
  • In another speech, Tshisekedi threatened to march on Kigali.
    Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
  • But protesters have vowed to march on Thursday across the country to call for the resignation of the president and all members of parliament who voted for the bill this week.
    Emmanuel Igunza, NPR, 26 June 2024
  • The shooting happened near King Park, roughly a mile from the convention center, where a small group of protesters gathered before marching on Monday.
    CBS News, 17 July 2024

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