endure

Definition:
1. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
2. Face or endure with courage.
3. Continue to live; endure or last.
4. Undergo or be subjected to.
5. Last and be usable.
6. Persist or be long; in time.
7. Continue to exist.

Use 'endure' in a sentence:

1. On these and similar formations in deserts around the world, a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions.
2. It will build their ability to endure hardships.
3. The islanders endured centuries of exploitation.
4. He endured excruciating agonies before he finally expired.
5. Only Marilyn has proved as enduring a fashion icon.
6. These findings suggest that we can increase our profits by discontinuing use of the Endure manufacturing process.
7. These people are usually unable or unprepared to endure the long haul.
8. To stay where he was, and endure this living death all night—was that better?
9. He can't endure being defeated.
10. He can't endure to be defeated.
11. Many volunteers choose to hurt themselves rather than endure boredom.
12. They endured five years of privation during the second world war.
13. I could only feel pity for what they were enduring.
14. In 1881, however, he said: "Now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry."
15. He would not endure such insolence; he would stop where he was.
16. Few babies survive this rare condition, and those who do must endure numerous operations and are likely to have complex needs.
17. His most enduring quality is his childlike innocence.
18. She endured her long illness with stoicism.
19. Black players often had to endure racist taunts.
20. Not every relationship will endure.
21. She endured the monstrous behaviour for years.
22. This year will be a year Japan must endure.
23. Then something seemed to snap in me. I couldn't endure any more.
24. They endure as masterworks of American musical theatre.
25. They must endure wear and tear.
26. Here they endure long hours at dangerous jobs, wringing flecks of gold from the dirt with mercury.
27. To what extent are Americans really willing to endure the environmental impacts of domestic energy production in order to cut back imports?
28. But real women can endure the worst in one another.
29. Hearing and telling stories about events may help children store information in ways that will endure into later childhood and adulthood.
30. Few babies survive this rare condition, and those who do must endure numerous operations.
31. She could not endure the thought of parting.
32. He also talked briefly about the isolation he endured while in captivity.
33. The Education Ministry proposed guidelines to decrease the amount of the homework given to students each day, their burden well above what they can endure.
34. She has to endure ten months' loss of liberty.
35. She was very handsome, but so proud and vain that she could not endure that anyone should surpass her in beauty.
36. He was so homesick that he could hardly endure the misery of it.
37. What sort of indignities would he be forced to endure?
38. He had to endure six months' loss of liberty.
39. As the editor's postscript reminds the reader, she was to endure two more spells of mental illness before the book was published.
40. They had to endure a long wait before the case came to trial.
41. The family endured a miserable existence in a cramped apartment.
42. My friends endured tremendous danger in order to help me.
43. The Lord shall endure forever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
44. Somehow the language endures and continues to survive.
45. They endured years of suffering and privation.
46. What is the reason for the game's enduring appeal?
47. The company endured heavy financial losses.
48. The pain was almost too great to endure.
49. His seed shall endure forever and his throne as the sun before me.
50. The old symbols, however, still endure.
51. You can only guess at what mental suffering they endure.