forbearancein a sentence
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She won the children over with patience and forbearance.forbearance = tolerance
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My student loan is in forbearance, but interest is continuing to add to the loan balance.forbearance = a temporary state where payments don't need to be made
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I appreciate your forbearance.forbearance = patience or tolerance
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She recommended regulatory forbearance while the banks repair their balance sheets.forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting
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We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill. (source)forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
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This forbearance on his part on hot, cloudless days, if that is what it was and not simple laziness, was not good enough. (source)forbearance = patience or tolerance
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His head turned toward the clearing with dreadful reluctance, as if he did not wish to look and yet could not forbear to. (source)forbear = refrain (hold back) from doing so
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We looked at each other, trembling on the brink of a quarrel, bitterness parting the threads of forbearance one by one, (source)forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting OR patience, tolerance, or self-control
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It was the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity. (source)forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
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The gray-haired man turned his head again toward the girl, perhaps to show her how forbearing, even stoic, his countenance was. (source)forbearing = tolerant and self-controlled
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ALAS, said the king, that ever this unhappy war was begun; for ever Sir Launcelot forbeareth me in all places, and in likewise my kin, and that is seen well this day by my nephew Sir Gawaine.† (source)forbeareth = refrains (holds back) from actingstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She forbeareth" in older English, today we say "She forbears."
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Well, dearest little woman, we must look forbearingly on it.† (source)
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The particular policy of the national and of the State systems of finance might now and then not exactly coincide, and might require reciprocal forbearances.† (source)
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I'm sure the Congolese heard it every day for a hundred years while they had to forbear the Belgians. (source)forbear = tolerate; or refrain from acting
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He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on. (source)forbearance = self-control
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I forbore, for the moment, to analyze this description further... (source)forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
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