Sample Sentences for
endure
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endure as in:  endured the pain

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I endured insult and injury without complaint.
endured = suffered through
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    As a soldier, she was prepared to endure hardship and even to sacrifice her life for others.
    endure = suffer through
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    Meg had felt that when that day came she would never be able to endure it.  (source)
    endure = bear (suffer through)
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    We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come.  (source)
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    But if making myself vulnerable meant he'd be brave, I'd endure it.  (source)
    endure = suffer through
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    I had come so far, endured so much agony and suffering.  (source)
    endured = suffered through
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    Ender Wiggin has provoked Bonzo Madrid beyond human endurance.  (source)
    endurance = ability to suffer through difficulty
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    He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes.  (source)
    enduring = suffering through
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    It was not unendurable, as the pain on the hill had been.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unendurable means not and reverses the meaning of endurable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He's endurable.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    LADY P: This cannot be endur'd by any patience.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled endured.
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    Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over;  (source)
    endures = suffers through
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    His looks shewing him not pained, but pleased with this allusion to his situation, she was emboldened to go on; and feeling in herself the right of seniority of mind, she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularize, mentioned such works of our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse and fortify the mind by the highest precepts, and the strongest examples of moral and religious endurances.†  (source)
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    The agonizing slowness was harder to endure than no motion at all.  (source)
    endure = continue to bear (suffer through)
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endure as in:  endure through the ages

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She is gone, but her teachings endure through the ages.
endure = continue to exist
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    Over the years, the stories my grandmother told me have endured as a source of wisdom in my life.
    endured = continued to exist
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    Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
    endure = continue to exist
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    Weeping may endure for a night, but how many of you know that JOY—!  (source)
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    Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.  (source)
    endures = lasts forever
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    I mean real love, the kind my grandmother used to describe by quoting the apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, the love that is kind and patient, that does not envy or boast, that beareth all things and believeth all things and endureth all things.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She endureth" in older English, today we say "She endures."
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    She knew this was not a dark side to Nature, just inventive ways to endure against all odds.  (source)
    endure = continued to exist
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    Most of their earlier settlements had long disappeared and been forgotten in Bilbo's time; but one of the first to become important still endured, though reduced in size;  (source)
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    Papa, to his enduring credit, was adamant.  (source)
    enduring = lasting (continuing to exist through time)
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    The wonder is, he hath endur'd so long:  (source)
    endur'd = lasted (continued to survive)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled endured.
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    We want a peace that endures.  (source)
    endures = continues to exist
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    "May you dwell forever in Amber," he said, "which endureth forever," and everyone raised his glass.†  (source)
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    The filmy enchantments of mirage could not endure the cold ocean water and the horizon was hard, clipped blue.  (source)
    endure = survive (continue to exist in)
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    A pause; it endured horribly.  (source)
    endured = lasted (continue to exist)
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