How to use in-sentence of “persist”:
+ The pain from the sting may persist for a few days with swelling.
+ Tropical Depression Lando continued to persist for another day, as it slowly tracked eastward, just off the western coast of Luzon.
+ Those individual vortices can persist for more than a month.
+ Rock formations are formed by sedimentary deposition in environments which may persist for hundreds of millions of years.
+ In this reading, attention is paid to the phrase “moune Elpis” – “only Hope” or “Hope alone.” A minority opinion construes the phrase instead to mean “empty Hope” or “baseless Hope”: not only are humans plagued by a multitude of evils, but they persist in the fruitless hope that things might get better.
+ For this reason, they persist in the environment for a long time.
+ So long as they do not crash into anything, these machines should persist indefinitely.
+ In March 2008, “El Diario” commented, “But if doubts persist about cases involving missing Latinas, there are reasons why.

