ENDURE in a Sentence

Learn ENDURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
248 example sentences for ENDURE, such as:
1. The pain was almost too great to endure.
2. Rather than being hoodwinked, I would endure anything.
3. It seemed impossible that anyone could endure such pain.
4. He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
5. That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ENDURE
endure
 v.  face and withstand with courage
 v.  last and be usable
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She meant what she said, for she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chief subject.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself, and the sight of India Wilkes and Stuart at the speaking had been too much for her predatory nature.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  When Mammy returned she would resume her lecture on Scarlett's breach of hospitality, and Scarlett felt that she could not endure prating about such a trivial matter when her heart was breaking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Throughout the dismal meal, Gerald's booming voice battered against her ears until she thought she could endure it no longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  You kick up such a heap of dust that we're choking, said Scarlett, who felt that she could endure conversation no longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  In fact, she could endure the hospital with equanimity now because it was a perfect happy hunting ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Her nerves, she said, were delicate and she could not endure noises.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  My impression has been for some time past that you could hardly endure Mrs. Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Scarlett could endure seeing her own possessions going out of the house in hateful alien hands but not this--not her little boy's pride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  They left the room, and Scarlett, who felt she could not endure the house another minute, followed them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  She could endure the sight of her own child in aprons made of sacking and the girls in dingy old gingham, could bear it that Will worked harder than any field hand, but not Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  She did not feel that she could endure seeing anyone or talking to anyone again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  So long as she was poor, just so long would she have to endure such scenes as this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Her conduct was a constant embarrassment to him but he reckoned he could endure it for a while longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  But even the ladies whom Scarlett took to her bosom had to endure much from her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure.
2  The pain was almost too great to endure.
3  It seemed impossible that anyone could endure such pain.
4  Rather than being hoodwinked, I would endure anything.
5  They had to endure a long wait before the case came to trial.
6  Truth is honest, truth is sure; Truth is strong and must endure.
7  Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old.
8  That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
9  He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
10  The poet's voiceneed not merely be the record of man , it can be one of the props , the pillars to help him endure andprevail.
11  He could endure his financial failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him.
12  How long do you think a man can endure such travail and degradation without rebelling?.
13  After spending three weeks on a desert island, Roger became a survivalist with atavistic skills that helped him endure.
14  As members, you can read it for yourselves but the corruption, crime and hardship these people must endure is heartbreaking.
15  Keats believed in the enduring power of great art, which would outlast its creators' brief lives.