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How to use endure in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Endure means to continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. Example: “The singer's popularity endured for decades.”

Examples of endure by meaning

verbTo continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.

  • The singer's popularity endured for decades.

verbTo last.

  • Our love will endure forever.

verbTo suffer patiently.

  • He endured years of pain.

More sentences with endure

  • The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.From the entry layup
  • The philosophical ideas of the ancient Greeks endure to this day.From the entry to this day
  • To be is to self-create, renovate, and endure.From the entry self-create
  • He endured a fair share of criticism during his lifetime, but his works are now universally considered to be masterpieces.From the entry fair share
  • They endured a torrent of inquiries.From the entry torrent
  • Domestic spanking is often endured over the knee (or lap), formal spanking rather applied over a contraption such as a trestle or A-frame, with or without constraints.From the entry spanking
  • This will be the first of the humiliation rituals the game forces you to endure.2025 September 17, [deleted], “The writing was on the wall for the Ghost of Tsushima sequel”, in r/KotakuInAction. From the entry humiliation ritual
  • His face showed a millennium of scars endured from getting into the muck with his enemies.2022, Varnadore Vaughn, Bleudark, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry Napoléon complex
  • It is a very large presence on the skyline for all to endure.2019 February 5, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich”, in…. From the entry apartment
  • How did she endure the pain and grieving of the assassination?2018 February 21, Jessica Iredale, “Moschino RTW Fall 2018”, in Women’s Wear Daily. From the entry haute
  • With my diagnosed mental illness I find it shocking that I should have had to endure this.2011, Giorgio Pin, An Interesting Life, page 75. From the entry do someone's head in
  • Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured.2009, Alan Black, Steel Walls and Dirt Drops (SciFi), Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry twoth
  • Reagan's presidentless, NSC-less policymaking model endured through most of his two terms in office.2008, M. Kent Bolton, U.S. National Security and Foreign Policymaking After 9/11. From the entry presidentless
  • Imagine they had to endure non-aircon and bumpy bus-rides either sitting or standing to reach their destinations.2008 July 4, “Another complain Queen on MRT!”, in MyCarForum of SgCarmart, retrieved 02 Nov 2017. From the entry complain queen
  • Surely all would be lost, and the nation would be forced to endure another Chrismahanukwanzakah.2007, Joseph Minton Amann, Tom Breuer, Fair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News, →ISBN, page 247. From the entry Chrismahanukwanzakah
  • In the past few hours, he had endured more shocks than he had in centuries.2006, Alexandra Ivy, When Darkness Comes, page 32. From the entry bloody hell
  • Watching another icon's anguished passing was evidently far too close to home for him to comfortably endure.2006 April 15, Nick Kent, “What a drag”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry close to home
  • First, though, he showed up at school in a horse-drawn cart and endured a smelly egg facial.2005, Sennett, Frank, 101 stunts for principals to inspire student achievement, page 66. From the entry eggstatic
  • Nevertheless, bones are mostly what endures after the early phases of corpsehood.2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry corpsehood
  • Every chance she gets, she makes horrid remarks about the pain I'm going to have to endure.1992, Julie Garwood, The Secret, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry cruel-hearted
  • These bromeliads endure both intense solar radiation and cool, humid conditions.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 551. From the entry bromeliad
  • I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom.1980, John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey. From the entry owndom
  • Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.1973, Bible (New International Version), Hebrews 12:7. From the entry discipline
  • Things you have to endure, things you never have to think about until they happen to you.1967, Agatha Christie, Endless Night. From the entry pettifogging
  • Few adults could have survived the tormentous, agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured.1960 May, "Loneliest Boy on Capitol Hill", Ebony, vol. 15, no. 7, p. 58 (Google preview). From the entry tormentous
  • Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268. From the entry prolixity
  • If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it.1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 April. From the entry gob
  • We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.1910 September 10, Bayard Holmes, “Orphanotrophism”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 104, number 11, page 238. From the entry orphanotrophism
  • People will endure a lot of indignity to avoid being left behind without VC money when the great bifurcation takes place.2026 March, Sam Kriss, “Child's Play: Tech's New Generation and the End of Thinking”, in Harper's Magazine. From the entry permanent underclass
  • But just as I was resolved to endure her pseudy piano meanderings forever, she's surprised us once again.2025 August 30, Jo Ellison, “Taylor Swift is entering her conservative era”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial…. From the entry pseudy
  • Before the dorm, we endured an equally enlightening and embarrassing hour and a half in the lavatorium, as they called it.2023, Christopher P. Menkhaus, “It’s Not a War”, in I Was a Teenage MILAB: A Novel, [Indianapolis, Ind.]: TimeAlpha Media, →ISBN, section ii. From the entry lavatorium
  • But Shenyang has endured a double blow.2022 August 30, Vivian Wang, “Lockdowns in China, and North Korea, Deal Double Blow to Bridge City”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Shenyang
  • Do you know what he’s going to endure if he marries a woman the whole community thinks is an adulteress?2021 [2001], John Eldredge, chapter 10, in Wild at Heart, Expanded edition, Nelson Books, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry adulteress
  • These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters.2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native…. From the entry english
  • Considering their civilization endured both the immense disaster of the Scourge and the brutal kett invasion, angara possess remarkably advanced technology.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: Technology Codex entry. From the entry bare-bones
  • How long must we endure such hardship?2015, John Strassel, chapter 74, in Exiled to Eden, Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 829. From the entry what is one to do
  • Through these intense two days, the provisional battalion endured sporadic artillery attacks, aircraft strafings, and small arms fire.2012, Victor Cleary, The Complete Clarksburg Ohio World War II Guide, page 176. From the entry strafing

Meaning of endure

  1. verb To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
  2. verb To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
  3. verb To last.

Full definition of endure

Questions about endure in a sentence

How do you use endure in a sentence?
Endure is used as a verb. For example: “The singer's popularity endured for decades.”
What is a short sentence with endure?
“He endured years of pain.”
What does endure mean?
Endure means to continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: endure (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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