endurable

Examples of endured

endured

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Where the effort to create constitutional monarchy proved fleeting, the move to a ministerial system has endured.
Thus, frightening and physically painful ordeals, such as those endured in rites of passage, will impact memory and belief.
For refugees who have endured multiple traumas and multiple losses, however, ' later ' may mean the rest of their lives.
Some have argued that such a system could not have endured without some measure of consent to it.
We endured everything that total war threw at us with fortitude, unwavering resolve to see it through and cheerful good humour.
Others endured wooden benches in grimy and over-crowded cars.
Yet they endured because of their attachment to the land and its profound capacity to sustain life.
However, the practice of setting aside specific days for missioning endured where need continued.
They endured frustrating periods when flying was impossible because of poor weather, poor radio communications, or other parties having higher priority.
Few casual observers of this frail, devoted couple could have guessed through what fires of war and conflicts of ideology their marriage had endured.
These manners and customs of governance endured in the discourse and practice of the state after 1947.
Having endured a hot and humid first summer the settlement suffered a bitter winter in 1607-8.
Ideas about ' eating ' and power endured, but - shaped by a strongly patrimonial politics - became ' private ' concerns.
The pioneering - and money-making - school was exceptionally fine, and some friendships endured a lifetime.
I hardly dare imagine what the inhabitants of the country endured in the course of all this.
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