ENDURE in a Sentence

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For ENDURE, below is one of 248 sentences:
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 ENDURE
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endure
 v.  tolerate; carry on through, despite hardships
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  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
2  She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself, and the sight of India Wilkes and Stuart at the speaking had been too much for her predatory nature.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  When Mammy returned she would resume her lecture on Scarlett's breach of hospitality, and Scarlett felt that she could not endure prating about such a trivial matter when her heart was breaking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Throughout the dismal meal, Gerald's booming voice battered against her ears until she thought she could endure it no longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  You kick up such a heap of dust that we're choking, said Scarlett, who felt that she could endure conversation no longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  In fact, she could endure the hospital with equanimity now because it was a perfect happy hunting ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Her nerves, she said, were delicate and she could not endure noises.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  My impression has been for some time past that you could hardly endure Mrs. Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Scarlett could endure seeing her own possessions going out of the house in hateful alien hands but not this--not her little boy's pride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  They left the room, and Scarlett, who felt she could not endure the house another minute, followed them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  She could endure the sight of her own child in aprons made of sacking and the girls in dingy old gingham, could bear it that Will worked harder than any field hand, but not Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  She did not feel that she could endure seeing anyone or talking to anyone again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  So long as she was poor, just so long would she have to endure such scenes as this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Her conduct was a constant embarrassment to him but he reckoned he could endure it for a while longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  But even the ladies whom Scarlett took to her bosom had to endure much from her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
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.