knuckle down to in a sentence

1. But he knuckled down to acting studies late in his junior year, then went on to the Juilliard School.
2. Sebastian has plans for other sailing adventures, but said his immediate priority is knuckling down to study for his Ordinary Level General School Certificate of Education.
3. But the students all have experiments to conduct, so after the first thrill of floating up off the floor, most of them are knuckling down to work.
4. Here, even leisure activities have an edge, whether it's knuckling down to sail in a stiff wind or charging up graveled hills on a bike.
5. Former oil tycoon Marvin Davis has threatened to withdraw his US $ 20 billion bid for all the entertainment assets unless Vivendi knuckles down to exclusive talks with him.
6. It's difficult to find knuckle down to in a sentence.
7. But I thought it would be an adventure anyway, so I knuckled down to things like'Deadman', " The Spectre " and whatever odd things would come my way.
8. People seem to be saying that if I'm not raising a child, going back to school or knuckling down to write a potential best seller, then what's wrong with me?
9. Cummings, the WBC Continental Americas super-welterweight champion, came forward aggressively in the second round and knocked Collins off balance again before the champion knuckled down to business, hitting the American down a second time.
10. "We have the money to pay the fines, but if we do, it means we are knuckling down to U . S . demands, " said a Mitsui O . S . K . spokeswoman, who requested anonymity.
11. Woods survived his version of Van de Velde's British Open horror show, shrugging off a triple bogey on No . 3 Saturday, then knuckled down to shoot an even-par 71 in the third round and take an astounding 10-stroke lead into the final round today.
12. And so shrill have its demands for cash become that the rail regulator, Tom Winsor, told the company on Tuesday to " put away the begging bowl " and " knuckle down to getting train services back to a sustainable level of reliability and quality of service ."
13. After a ceremonial exchange of gifts and congratulatory calls from vice president Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, the crews of the space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir Friday knuckled down to work, beginning a battery of medical tests designed to understand the effects of long stays in space.
14. "It's disappointing that there isn't a paper, but let's knuckle down to it over the weekend and make sure it is produced, " said Gerry Adams, whose IRA-allied Sinn Fein party gained admission to the talks last September on condition that the truce hold.
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