endure
Example Sentences
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He said Luton-born Abrahams had "endured worsening ill health for the last 15 years, leaving him finally unable to perform".
From BBC
What matters is how we handle it, and with “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens gave the world the best possible Christmas present: the enduring belief that things can always get better.
From Salon
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. weakened for a fifth consecutive month in December, amid enduring concerns over jobs and business conditions, a monthly survey said.
Widely considered East Africa’s leading novelist and one of the continent’s most articulate social critics, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o examined the enduring traumatic effects of colonialism on both individuals and the national psyche.
In Victorian times, the telling, or reading, of ghost stories was a Christmas tradition; the most enduring Yule-time tale — Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” written in 1843 — is first and foremost a ghost story.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
