endurable

Example Sentences

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Could a cold plunge be not only endurable but enjoyable?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

With a price per viewing of zero, Netflix and Amazon Prime shows only have to be endurable.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2019

Perhaps this is what Rothko meant when he told a group of art students that he included in his paintings a measure of hope: ‘‘10 percent to make the tragic concept more endurable.’’

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2017

Words are so powerful to me, and now they’re so endurable and transferable, and they show up somewhere else 20 years later.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2015

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison