ENDURANCE in a Sentence

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The year following the elimination of the distribution centers was, by employee consensus, the worst the company had ever endured.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENDURANCE
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endurance
 n.  perseverance; state or fact of persevering; continuing existence
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She would have preferred a loud scream to silent endurance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  I always felt that women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  I have a deep and impersonal admiration for your endurance, Scarlett, and I do not like to see your spirit crushed beneath too many millstones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  This irritated Scarlett almost beyond endurance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Thus she mounted to endurance and surcease.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  She was then fifty-five years old, a strong woman, of unusual endurance.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
8  That long trip through the deep snow had taken all the endurance out of him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
9  By and by they would have their revenge, though, for the thing was getting beyond human endurance, and the people would rise and murder the packers.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  We were worked fully up to the point of endurance.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  He began to exaggerate the endurance, the skill, and the valor of those who were coming.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  "Well," said St. Clare, in a tone of dry endurance.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  What endurance too, and what courage he displayed within the wooden horse, wherein all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
14  I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old.
17  That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
18  He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
19  The poet's voiceneed not merely be the record of man , it can be one of the props , the pillars to help him endure andprevail.
20  He could endure his financial failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him.
21  How long do you think a man can endure such travail and degradation without rebelling?.
22  After spending three weeks on a desert island, Roger became a survivalist with atavistic skills that helped him endure.
23  As members, you can read it for yourselves but the corruption, crime and hardship these people must endure is heartbreaking.
24  Keats believed in the enduring power of great art, which would outlast its creators' brief lives.
25  What can't be cured must be endured.
26  He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
27  They endured five years of privation during the second world war.
28  The year following the elimination of the distribution centers was, by employee consensus, the worst the company had ever endured.
29  The company endured heavy financial losses.
30  She has endured house arrest and continual harassment by the police.