ENDURING in a Sentence

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248 example sentences for ENDURING, such as:

1. The long, slow, enduring thing.
2. What can't be cured must be endured.
3. What cannot be cured must be endured.
4. She made a decision resolute and enduring.
5. The company endured heavy financial losses.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENDURING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
enduring
 a.  lasting; surviving; long-suffering; patient
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She could not go on enduring the hidden derision.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  The Incident of the Seventeen Cents killed her none too enduring interest.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  She made a decision resolute and enduring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
5  Marriage were an enduring crime on the part of a Templar; but what lesser folly I may practise, I shall speedily be absolved from at the next Preceptory of our Order.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  The long, slow, enduring thing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  It made her melancholy again; and the knowledge of what must be enduring there, invested even the house, modern, airy, and well situated as it was, with a melancholy aspect.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
8  I grew used to everything, or rather I voluntarily resigned myself to enduring it.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
9  My poor husband is enduring pains and hunger in Jewish taverns, but the news which I have inspires me yet more.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
10  After the sufferings he had been enduring, Prince Andrew enjoyed a blissful feeling such as he had not experienced for a long time.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVII
11  Perhaps he will be young, strong, and enduring, like yourself, and will aid you in your escape, while I have been but a hindrance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
12  I looked at my companions, one after another, and saw from their flushed faces and damp brows that they were enduring equal torture.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Lord of Thymbra, give us an enduring dwelling-place; grant a house and family to thy weary servants, and a city to abide: keep Troy's second fortress, the remnant left of the Grecians and merciless Achilles.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
14  Conversely, when two consecutive princes are of rare excellence, we commonly find them achieving results which win for them enduring renown.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX.
15  She meant what she said, for she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chief subject.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  What can't be cured must be endured.
17  He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
18  They endured five years of privation during the second world war.
19  The year following the elimination of the distribution centers was, by employee consensus, the worst the company had ever endured.
20  The company endured heavy financial losses.
21  She has endured house arrest and continual harassment by the police.
22  What cannot be cured must be endured.
23  He endured three years in prison for his religious beliefs.
24  Disliked by his superiors, the officer candidate endured an extremely rigorous training program.
25  The brownstone had already endured one reincarnation: In the 1940's, it was converted into eight studio apartments.
26  The 40% of humanity who lived under Marxist regimes for much of the 20th century endured famines, gulags and party dictatorships.
27  She was pushed beyond her powers of endurance.
28  Goaded beyond endurance, she turned on him and hit out.
29  She showed great endurance in the face of pain.
30  He used to astound his friends with feats of physical endurance.