Sentence examples for I buckled down from inspiring English sources

I buckled down and did my homework.

I realized I was wasting valuable time musing about other people's problems, so I buckled down.

By the time I buckled down, I struggled to fit my GCSEs around college work and then got an apprenticeship.

I'M ashamed to say that I then let nearly 18 months pass before I buckled down to three hours of online study and took the written test.

Then he took me inside and planted me at the vanity, where I buckled down to a copy of Hello! while he applied the color.

As August drew to a close after a long, hedonistic post-university summer, I buckled down and started applying for jobs.

Even though I almost suffered a nervous collapse when I finally buckled down to organize my enormous cache of photos into albums, I know that such records are a key way that my daughters and my husband and I hang on to memories.

He describes relearning basic chores, including brushing his teeth and grating cheese, then says he once believed that "if I just buckled down to the great work at hand... my best self was just there, right around the corner".

I explained to him that I had never buckled down to work, had never done the things I should have done, had never tried very hard to reach any particular goal, had always done about as I pleased and had followed my own inclinations rather than the admonitions of my elders and the advice of my teachers".

I just basically buckled down and started to immerse myself in everything that I could.

I just really buckled down and played Magic for ten hours a day, most days.