put up with

1. Endure without complaint, as in She's been very patient, putting up with all kinds of inconvenience. [Mid-1700s]

Example Sentences

"It's due to the normalisation of these situations, the attitude that boys will be boys and it's something women should put up with," added Rhiannon, who is from Llanelli.

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Rhiannon Williams said she was sexually harassed on a train earlier this year and recalled: "You can't go anywhere, you can't escape. I had to sit there and put up with it."

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Alliance Party deputy leader Eóin Tennyson said the Longs would not be "intimidated" by the mob but that they "shouldn't have to put up with it".

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Residents here say they have had to put up with this for years, because, they say, no action has been taken to put a permanent end to it.

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If Salah was told to follow Chelsea's left-back Marc Cucurella, then it was extremely obvious he wasn't, and Slot would not put up with that.

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