Sentence examples for bear someone from inspiring English sources

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But the idea of allowing a substitute to bear someone else's death sentence (or similarly serious punishment) seems, on the face of it, to be morally repugnant.

Moreover, the penal substitution theory faces the challenge of explaining how it could possibly be just to allow a substitute to bear someone else's punishment.

"They could not bear someone of lesser status having authority over them, even though they were nuns and that person was their abbess.

Not so with the Conservatives, where it's incredibly easy to get stuffed and pissed up for free on the corporate pound, so long as you can bear someone boring on about the frightfully important work that happens at ports.

They are not designed to bear someone's full body weight of course, but are very useful in a space that has little with which to steady oneself.

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This meaning doesn't yet appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, though the O.E.D. does record the expression "to bore someone's ears," meaning to "insist upon a hearing," from which it probably derived.

One enthusiast’s screaming sport bike may jar the wrists and back of another, and a plush cruiser might bore someone obsessed with speed.

Lord knows I've written enough about PC piracy to bore someone who's already dead to death, so I''ll just say this: okie dokie, sirs.

The "that's all," "please bore someone else... ...... catchphrases; her coat-tossing on Andrea's desk and discarded steak lunch are retained from the novel.

You don't want to sound too earnest ("please love me!") or too nonchalant ("I'm way too good for this")—you want to represent who you are as a person, but you don't want to bore someone with an itemized list of everything you've ever thought, loved or felt.

You'll always think about polar bears when someone says "polar bear".

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