bear up against

Example Sentences

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To bear up against nature’s indifference can be invigorating and also corrective.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

I rose to leave; my self-control was not strong enough for me to bear up against these repeated attacks.

From One of My Sons by Green, Anna Katharine

And difficult it is to see how human strength could bear up against such a certainty, where the vision was of ill.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

However, it was doubtless owing to this persistent optimism inculcated by her father that Ethel herself was enabled to bear up against the drab monotony of her life.

From Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger

He has no power to bear up against it, and goes away by himself, and cries bitterly, sonorously, and towards the last, I suspect, rather ostentatiously.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various