inured
adjective
hardened by frequent exposure, especially to something bad; accustomed.
Example Sentences
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With none of these changes had Disraeli’s personal action much to do, but they all enured to the benefit of his party, they all swelled the tide which bore him into office in 1874.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
Their loss, however, was such, that the advantages of the field enured to the Americans.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
The fruits of victory enured to them, quite as much in consequence of the active combination of the partisan captains, as by the vigor of their own arms.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
For, enured to the cold, the husky knows no winter shelter and needs none, sleeping curled, nose in bushy tail, in a hole dug in the snow, through the bitter nights without frost bite.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
Gouvion-Saint-Cyr enured the army at the beginning of the Revolution, and passing rapidly through the lower grades, became a general of brigade at twenty-nine, and a general of division at thirty.
