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Example sentences for "inured"

Lexicographically close words:
inundates; inundating; inundation; inundations; inure; inuring; inutile; inutility; invade; invaded
  1. The majority of them were self-educated men, who in early life were inured to industrious toil.

  2. I know what's in it," muttered Ladarelle, in confusion, for he was not quite inured to the baseness he had sunk to.

  3. I am too inured to solitude to want companionship, though I can be grateful when it is offered me.

  4. His army, though not numerous, was well disciplined, inured to hardship by a severe climate and campaigns, and trained to victory in the war with Poland.

  5. Thus did I ultimately become inured to what was most detestable, and in the quarter of the year I had surpassed my instructors.

  6. Our recent experiences had tended to moderate our claims in this regard; we had become inured to bad living; our constitutions had had time to wax weak; our appetites were less hearty.

  7. Those who are unable to bear the summer heats, or are not inured to the climate, reside in the north, leaving a trusty overseer in charge of the plantation.

  8. I then set off as fast as I could, and being now inured to running for a long time without stopping, I left the rover a long way behind me in a very short time.

  9. The next morning we all carried home our loads, and mine was as large as any of the others, if not larger; neither did I flag on the way, for I was naturally very strong and active, and had lately been inured to fatigue.

  10. On arriving at the St. Francis river we found it swimming, but made no halt on that account, having by this time become inured to all kinds of hardships and dangers.

  11. They were literally a race of backwoodsmen inured to hardship, and delighted in nothing so much as wild adventure and personal danger.

  12. But every obstacle was surmounted by the perseverance of the legionaries, who were inured to toil as well as to danger, and who felt themselves animated by the spirit of their leader.

  13. This was a band of hunters, resolute men, well acquainted with the country and inured to hardships.

  14. The "Black Rifle" spoke of himself and his followers as men inured to hardships, and accustomed to deal with Indians, who preferred stealth and stratagem to open warfare.

  15. That, in those days, people were more inured than our refined contemporaries to the controversial use of such revolting coarseness has been stated and is indeed perfectly true.

  16. It is not you alone who endure such temptations; I am inured to them, and Peter too and Paul were acquainted with them.

  17. But wherever you find him, the commuter is a tough and tempered soul, inured to privation and calamity.

  18. Who but a man inured to the squalour of a newspaper office would dream of a cockroach as a hero?

  19. Inured to revolutions, under which she had smarted so as she could smart no more, from the loss of all those who had been the first objects of her solicitude, a husband and three sons!

  20. The queen supports herself with the calm and serenity belonging to one inured to misfortune, and submissive to Providence.

  21. I saw two young children at the breast entirely naked; thus they are inured from their infancy to cold and hardships.

  22. They were men inured to hardships and privations, untiring on the march, faithful to their flag, obedient to their officers, and undaunted under fire.

  23. Inured to fatigue and danger, they are sober and abstemious, dress in the most simple manner, are dexterous in the use of the lance, and are splendid swimmers.

  24. She had inured her constitution to fatigue, disdained the use of a covered carriage, generally appeared on horseback in a military habit, and sometimes marched several miles on foot at the head of the troops.

  25. Accustomed to attack in solitary places, and more or less inured to bereavement, a kind of grim quiet follows them wherever they are seen.

  26. The Britains that were inured with the shelues and shallow places of the water, when they saw the Romans thus disorderlie come out of their [Sidenote: The fiercenesse of the Britains.

  27. Take hence this hateful life, with tortures torn, Inured to trouble, and to labours born.

  28. But let not the king deceive himself: we have an enemy down yonder in the plain accustomed to conquer, inured to danger, skilled in all the arts and artifices of war.


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    Other words:
    accustomed; adapted; adjusted; brassy; brazen; callous; conditioned; dead; dull; experienced; flinty; hard; hardened; hardhearted; heartless; impervious; indurated; insensitive; inured; naturalized; obdurate; oriented; seared; seasoned; shameless; steeled; steely; stony; tough; trained; wont; wonted