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Example sentences for "cannot bear"

  • And I cannot bear to hear you--it makes it too hard for me.

  • You must not blame him--I cannot bear it.

  • I shall learn to manage in time, and I cannot bear to detain you.

  • He knows that children will be children, and I cannot bear to check them, the dears.

  • I cannot bear to think that I should like to have a thing and that I cannot afford it.

  • But I shall know that he has acquitted me of a fault of which I cannot bear to think I should be accused.

  • I cannot bear to give him pain, but this is a matter in which I mean to have my own way.

  • I cannot bear to hear you speak of yourself in that way.

  • I cannot leave you, I cannot bear to see you go alone into exile.

  • Father, it is heart-rending, and I cannot bear it!

  • I fear, said he, it is not what I like, by your manner: and let me tell you, that I cannot bear denial.

  • And pray be comforted; I cannot bear to see you thus apprehensive; but she has written you a letter to assure you, that she has reason to be well satisfied, and happy.

  • Your honour knows you went too far for a master to a servant, or even to his equal; and I cannot bear it.

  • We cannot bear to see a slowly-moving, deliberate, self-contained spirit, advancing quietly on its discerned path.

  • We are like the child who, when first confronted with suffering, cannot bear to believe in its existence, and who, if it is prolonged, cannot believe in the existence of anything else.

  • I cannot bear to part with my splendid work of art," sighed Keraunus.

  • I cannot bear to part with such a gem but," and as he spoke he lowered his voice.

  • But you know I cannot bear to miss you when I come home.

  • And when he again heard the sport outside, he said, "I cannot bear it, I must be there; they shall not find it so easy to catch me.

  • I cannot bear to see you so deceived, and I must tell you.

  • I cannot bear to give him up, and yet I fear I must.

  • I am so unstrung that I cannot bear to be left in the house alone.

  • Moreover, you know that I become quite obtuse when obliged to write perpetually for an instrument that I cannot bear; so from time to time I do something else, such as duets for the piano and violin, and I also worked at the mass.

  • I do entreat of you never to allow the thought to cross your mind that I can ever forget you, for I cannot bear such an idea.

  • Now Raaff never does this,--in fact, he cannot bear it.

  • I cannot bear to see the sufferings of others.

  • When I remember Boucher's half mad words and ways, I cannot bear to think how coolly Mr. Thornton spoke.

  • And I cannot bear to think that she does.

  • I cannot bear, that the parental authority should be thus despised, thus trampled under foot.

  • This I have to say, Madam, that I cannot bear to be kept at this distance from you under the same roof.

  • I cannot bear to be dealt meanly with; and angrily insisted that he should directly set out for Berkshire, in order to engage his cousin, as he had promised.

  • He cannot bear a saddle upon his back, quoth Obadiah, for the whole world.

  • Moreover, I cannot bear to be at ill-will with my fellows, and am ever the first to give in after having quarrelled.

  • I am so dreadfully ugly that I cannot bear to have anyone look at me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot bear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brown color; cannot abide; cannot avoid; cannot come; cannot conceive; cannot consent; cannot endure; cannot expect; cannot explain; cannot fail; cannot forbear; cannot imagine; cannot know; cannot make; cannot refuse; cannot remember; cannot take; cannot tell; cannot tell you how; cannot well; cannot write; good style; hauled down; lay down; though many; white clover