All 7 Uses of
endure
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Patrice came and sat on the floor by my chair, patting my leg with a little boy's solemn endurance.†
Chpt 5 *endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- I just envied those dumb Bobbseys for having a superior adventure to ours, in that cool, snowy place, where no one had to endure an enforced fiesta.†
Chpt 2
- We had to endure Father's escalating rage, when he returned home to find dinner no farther along than an unresolved argument over whether there are or are not worms in the flour, or any flour at all.†
Chpt 3
- It should occur on average seven times per year, separated by intervals just slightly longer than that endured by Noah on his putative ark.†
Chpt 3
- The misery, the hunt, the ants, the embarrassments of all we saw and endured—those were just stories I would tell someday with a laugh and a toss of my hair, when Africa was faraway and make-believe like the people in history books.†
Chpt 4
- They've risked Mobutu and every imaginable parasite in the backwater places where children were left to die or endure when the Underdowns and their ilk fled the country.†
Chpt 5
- No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.†
Chpt 6
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