endurein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
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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She could have shot herself, scratched herself, or indulged in other forms of self-mutilation, but she chose what she probably felt was the weakest option—to at least endure the discomfort of the weather. (source)
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The tithes endure the occasional jeers and hisses from the terribles, like martyrs. (source)
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I did it over and over, slowing my finger with each pass, watching the way it seemed to cut the flame in half, testing to see how much my finger could endure without actually getting burned. (source)endure = suffer through
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The longest blackout ever had been three minutes and fourteen seconds. Surely this was longer. She could have endured it if she'd been on her own. It was the thought of Poppy, lost, that she couldn't stand— (source)endured = suffered through
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But endurance had always been my virtue and I kept on. (source)endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) things that are difficult or unpleasant
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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)unendurable = not capable of being suffered through (or put up with)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)endurable = something that can be suffered through (or put up with)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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I understood it not, nor to the end Endur'd the harmony.† (source)Endur'd = suffered through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasantunconventional 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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He lay on his plank, daydreaming about the Olympics, holding them before himself as a shining promise, a future for which to endure an unbearable present. (source)endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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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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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)endureth = continues to existstandard 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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Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. (source)endures = lasts forever
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How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? (source)endure = survive
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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)endured = continued to exist
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Papa, to his enduring credit, was adamant. (source)enduring = lasting (continuing to exist through time)
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What martyrdom endurest thou!† (source)endurest = continue to existstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou endurest" in older English, today we say "You endure."
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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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"For the race is not given to the swift nor to the strong," he signifies, "but to him who endureth until the end!"† (source)endureth = continues to exist
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We want a peace that endures. (source)
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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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