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Example sentences for "endure"

Lexicographically close words:
ends; endue; endued; endurable; endurance; endured; endures; endureth; enduring; enduringly
  1. Unable to endure the continued ill-treatment of her husband, a surly, intemperate Canadian, she had left him, and returned to his family among the Pottowattamies.

  2. Nor wander back with sullen steps again; For neither pleasant pastime canst thou take In such a journey, nor endure the pain.

  3. Not even the iron frame of Montrose could endure a prolonged existence under such circumstances.

  4. And in another letter, written only two days afterwards, he says, "It is the only time that they cannot escape you, for human constitution cannot endure to be long out of houses.

  5. And so in Mathematical Science, as has been often insisted on, the philosopher has patiently to endure the presence of truths, which are not the less true for being irreconcileable with each other.

  6. The jealous uncle could not endure the thought of their being in the neighborhood of his wife.

  7. But it is well to start early to enjoy the freshness of morn, and avoid the excessive heat of the sun which I really think I endure better than the shikarries.

  8. I had no idea that I could endure so much smoke: I sat right in the middle of it, there being no help for it.

  9. On account of the excessive heat we could not endure ours.

  10. As they were unable to endure such cruel treatment, the unhappy prisoners appealed to their jailers, who took off the chains, but in exchange put their legs in stocks.

  11. Upon seeing this barbarity, I withdrew, for I could not endure it nor the diabolical jokes and laughter of those fiends upon seeing the desperate agony of their victims.

  12. Those thirty-five unfortunates, still in chains, were thus murdered in cold blood, and from this instant forward they began to persecute me, making me endure all kinds of miseries.

  13. The proud Spaniard could not endure the thought of failure.

  14. But the stern sons of the Old Pilgrim Fathers would not endure them.

  15. In the bitter cold months of a New England winter it was no trifling affair to endure the actual suffering that accompanied religious worship on Sunday.

  16. He was a tyrant in his way, and at length his people would not endure his tyranny, especially as the English settlers in the same region enjoyed more liberty and had increased more rapidly in numbers and riches than they.

  17. Why did we endure these insults from England so long?

  18. Till the sun go down I will abide, and endure continually until then.

  19. Art thou indeed so eager to leave the wide-wayed city of the Trojans, the city for which we endure with sorrow so many evils?

  20. From that hour verily will I cause a new pursuit from the ships, that shall endure continually, even until the Achaians take steep Ilios, through the counsels of Athene.

  21. Yet will I no longer endure to see thee in anguish; mine offspring art thou, and to me thy mother bare thee.

  22. Long accustomed to treat the Italians with a haughty contempt, they could not endure the thought of recognizing them as equals, not to say superiors.

  23. Tell your father, when you write to him, that all the favor of my august master would not endure the test of two such proteges.

  24. By the uncertain light of the wood embers I endeavored to sketch the group that lay before me.

  25. There was a droll devil down here in the summer that knew you well,--a Mr. Webber.

  26. Not a sound was heard save the tramp of a patrol or the short, quick cry of the sentry.

  27. Her father was talking to her always of her money;--but from him she could endure it.

  28. But he has so extreme a belief in himself that he cannot endure to be told that absolute Chaos will not come at once if he be disturbed.

  29. Anger, combined with an indifference to self-sacrifice, does not endure the wear of many days.

  30. There were certain men who could not endure to be twitted with having deserted the principles of their lives, when it was clear that nothing was to be gained by the party by such desertion.

  31. Is it possible that any editor should endure any inconvenience without meditating an article?

  32. And he would make Lord Chiltern understand that he would not endure interference.

  33. He could not endure the feeling of being called Finn by him without showing his resentment.

  34. But of course you must endure the ill-effects of his influence,--be they what they may.

  35. But he did not know how to endure worship, and the half county declared that he was stern and proud, and more haughty even than his uncle.

  36. But his sufferings must endure for his life--might probably embitter his life to the very end.

  37. By them he could endure to be petted, praised, or upon occasion even pitied.

  38. The more potent is a man, the less accustomed to endure injustice, and the more his power to inflict it,--the greater is the sting and the greater the astonishment when he himself is made to suffer.

  39. I could endure no more; I thought the voices of my own innocents cried to me for help, and in the frenzy of the moment I left the godly man, and fled like a demoniac, not knowing which way I went.

  40. It is not in man to bear always aggression, nor can it be required of him ever to endure contumely.

  41. Our English summers are so short that if we do not make the most of the bright warm days while they are with us, we have to endure all the pangs of remorse through a rainy autumn and a cold winter.

  42. I endure her here for Bessie's sake; just as I would endure the ungraceful curves of a Dachshund if Bess took it into her head to make a pet of one; but at school I could keep her at a distance.

  43. She would have been happier at the Homestead, sitting by the fire reading aloud to Miss Wendover--happier almost anywhere--for she had not only to endure a kind of gentlemanly persecution from Dr.

  44. You must endure neuralgia rather than go on poisoning yourself with brandy.

  45. A most arrogant, conceited pedant in politics; cannot endure the least contradiction in any of his visions or paradoxes.

  46. And these will endure for the noble pleasure of man.

  47. Like Sordello's song, they will endure for the healing, comforting, exalting and impelling of the world.

  48. In doing these two things with simplicity, passion and beauty is the finest work of the arts, the eternal youth, the illimitable material of poetry, and it will endure while humanity endures in this world, and in that which is to come.

  49. Only that I cannot endure to be here any more.

  50. I will not endure it--I tell you so plainly!

  51. I cannot endure to share anything with any one!

  52. You, Jack, as well as my brothers, must remain below; better endure confinement than encounter wickedness.

  53. But though he had the furnace to himself, to use as long as he could endure the heat of the advancing summer, he was face to face with a difficulty that seemed insuperable.

  54. For he was not very strong of limb, though he was quick with his hands and of a very tenacious nature, able to endure pain as well as weariness when he was determined to finish what he had begun.

  55. What Howard wished to be, he labored to be; his ideal was beautiful and true, and he raised a throne which will endure through eternity.

  56. It was evident to him that Tom had no claim to any part of the reward; but he could not endure the thought even of being accused of meanness.

  57. He pitied him, for he realized that he must endure a great deal of pain before he could again go out; but he finally dismissed the matter with the squire's sage reflection, that he hoped the calamity would be a good lesson to him.

  58. The substance of Tom's story was, that his father drank so hard, and was such a tyrant in the house, that he could endure it no longer.

  59. Radishes will not endure hot weather and are suited to early spring and late autumn planting.

  60. Wonder stirred at last even in old Marie's fatalistic mind at the lack of panic in this shy young foreigner--who could not chaffer, who could not bully, who could not endure even the mimic urbanity of Sezanne.

  61. She, already at the breaking pitch, could not endure that contempt.

  62. The instant she had her bedroom door locked, she knew why she had come away--knew she had been obeying an instinct warning her secret self that she could not many minutes longer endure the strain.

  63. When she could endure it no longer, she suddenly burst out: "You've come to ask me to leave at once.

  64. When she could endure no longer, she said, "Who is it?

  65. No true boy feels that; he would rather go and slay the Nemean lion, or perform any round of heroic labors, than endure perpetual appeals to his pity, for evils over which he can make no conquest.

  66. Well, then, he would endure that; he should at least have the happiness of seeing her, of feeling some nearness to her.

  67. Then, when she hath these worthy prints defac’d Out of the minds that can endure her hand.

  68. Nell, I inform you of the gruesome fact now; and that I shall endure agonies every time I see you dancing with another man.

  69. She could not endure it, and she got out of bed, put on her dressing gown, and slipped down the stairs.

  70. Etruria, they said, was to endure ten centuries.

  71. They could not endure these people who worshipped another god than theirs and contemned their deities.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abide; accept; advance; afford; agonize; allow; approve; bear; bide; brave; brook; condone; continue; countenance; defy; digest; disregard; dwell; elapse; encounter; endure; exist; experience; expire; extend; feel; flit; flow; fly; forbear; glide; grieve; habituate; hang; harden; have; hold; ignore; indulge; keep; know; labor; lapse; last; linger; live; lump; maintain; meet; overlook; pass; pay; persevere; persist; pocket; prevail; proceed; prolong; rebuff; receive; remain; repel; repulse; reside; resist; run; serve; slide; slip; soldier; spare; spend; stand; stay; stick; stiffen; stomach; strengthen; subsist; suffer; support; survive; sustain; swallow; take; tarry; taste; temper; tolerate; toughen; undergo; wear; condone; continue; countenance; defy; digest; disregard; dwell; elapse; encounter; endure; exist; experience; expire; extend; feel; flit; flow; fly; forbear; glide; grieve; habituate; hang; harden; have; hold; ignore; indulge; keep; know; labor; lapse; last; linger; live; lump; maintain; meet; overlook; pass; pay; persevere; persist; pocket; prevail; proceed; prolong; rebuff; receive; remain; repel; repulse; reside; resist; run; serve; slide; slip; soldier; spare; spend; stand; stay; stick; stiffen; stomach; strengthen; subsist; suffer; support; survive; sustain; swallow; take; tarry; taste; temper; tolerate; toughen; undergo; wear