Sentence examples for I could abide from inspiring English sources

"I wanted to serve, but I didn't feel I could abide by a policy that was bad for my own mental health".

I have favored him for months, as the more I learned about City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the less I could abide her record on paid sick days, stop-and-frisk, and on Michael Bloomberg's overturning of term limits.

MARGARET TALBOT: My kids watched several of his movies, especially "My Neighbor Totoro" (1988), on video a lot, and I started to realize that I could abide repeat viewings of them more than almost any other children's movies, with the possible exception of "The Wizard of Oz".

Instead it was quietly decided that fabric would be free to reopen as long as it could abide by new rules.

I have to agree with Waugh on the questionable merits of "Brideshead Revisited"; I never could abide that would-be adorable Sebastian Flyte or his infernal teddy bear, either.

"It's the School Board what gives 'em these notions, a-stuffin' boys head full of pride/And makes 'em look down on their fathers – these School Boards I ne'er could abide".

Mr. Palau said he could abide by such a tacit policy.

Maybe he'd watch a rerun of "Hogan's Heroes," the only show he could abide.

Who could abide a chronic, deep itch under the skin that scratching merely exacerbated?

The administration could abide by the convention and still deny the captives prisoner-of-war status.

This distortion of historical fact was more than Henry Adams could abide.