manful

How To Use manful In A Sentence

• 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 decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell.
• He played on manfully on stages in basement clubs as naked Metropolitan policemen danced the conga. Times, Sunday Times
• Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
• He manfully fought back with three consecutive birdies from the eighth but dropped a further stroke on the way back to the clubhouse. Times, Sunday Times
• He had picked up the art of jollification at Oxford, entering ‘manfully into all their parties and scenes of dissipation.
• They stuck to their task manfully.
• Well now, Flash old son, says you, that's compensation surely, for all the horrors unmanfully endured - and don't forget that along the road you've had enough assorted trollop to fill Chelsea Barracks, with an annexe at Alder-shot. Watershed
• He called manfully to her to follow him and turned back, striding, with the club swinging in his hand, towards the squatting-place, as if he had never left the tribe; and she ceased her weeping and followed quickly as Tales of Space and Time
• 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.