All 8 Uses of
endure
in
Nectar in a Sieve
- Who could endure such a filtering of sunlight and fresh air as they do?†
Chpt 8 *
- Then, after the heat had endured for days and days, and our hopes had shrivelled with the paddy-too late to do any good-then we saw the storm clouds gathering, and before long the rain came lashing down, making up in fury for the long drought and giving the grateful land as much as it could suck and more.†
Chpt 13
- The rest of us might struggle on, our endurance was greater; but he was only a child, not yet five, who had already waited a long time and who had suffered more than any of us.†
Chpt 16
- A few more days' waiting, a few more days' anxiety-it is not beyond enduring, it is not too much to ask.†
Chpt 16
- I no longer sold to Biswas; there were several other shops in the town now where I was paid better, and where I did not have to endure the sly, spiteful observations he made.†
Chpt 18
- There is no grandeur in want-or in endurance.†
Chpt 19
- But we had come too far, hoped too high, endured too much, to turn back now.
Chpt 25 *endured = suffered through (or to put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- "If I grieve," I said, "it is not for you, but for myself, beloved, for how shall I endure to live without you, who are my love and my life?"†
Chpt 29
Definitions:
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(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist