Example Sentences

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He was finally able to enjoy his life without having to negotiate the constant nagging pain that he had been enduring for so long.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

Some overseas protesters said it was their turn to take on some of the burden their friends and family had been enduring.

From Reuters • Nov. 28, 2022

To run in such a race would be to mirror the trauma the Ukrainians had been enduring since February.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022

In March, after citizens had been enduring critical shortages of fuel, cooking gas and medicine for months already, the president reached out to the IMF.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2022

Although Harry much preferred this new laughing, joking Ron to the moody, aggressive model he had been enduring for the last few weeks, the improved Ron came at a heavy price.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling