All 14 Uses of
endure
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Instead, Nana grabbed Mariam by the wrists, pulled her close, and, through gritted teeth, said, "You are a clumsy little harami This is my reward for everything I've endured An heirloom-breaking, clumsy little harami.†
p. 4.2
- Only one skill And it's this: tahamul Endure.†
p. 18.8
- Endure what, Nana?†
p. 18.8
- We endure.†
p. 19.1
- Everything I endured for you!†
p. 27.5
- How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.†
p. 91.9
- This is my reward for everything I've endured.†
p. 222.9
- And, for the first time, it was not an adversary's face Laila saw but a face of grievances unspoken, burdens gone unprotested, a destiny submitted to and endured.†
p. 249.8
- Instead, Nana had endured the shame of bearing a harami, had shaped her life around the thankless task of raising Mariam and, in her own way, of loving her.†
p. 287.5
- It seemed worthwhile, if absurdly so, to have endured all they'd endured for this one crowning moment, for this act of defiance that would end the suffering of all indignities.†
p. 300.4
- It seemed worthwhile, if absurdly so, to have endured all they'd endured for this one crowning moment, for this act of defiance that would end the suffering of all indignities.†
p. 300.4
- To the south, she could see the bread factory, Silo, long abandoned, its pale yellow fa9ade pocked with yawning holes from all the shelling it had endured.†
p. 307.5
- They would make new lives for themselves-peaceful, solitary lives-and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find.†
p. 354.3
- A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.†
p. 401.5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(2)
(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist