Sentence examples for bore up from inspiring English sources

There was no baggage room, but apparently the riding public bore up under the hardship.

When asked how she bore up under the constant threats her work engendered, Ms. Abeysekera replied that she took a certain solace in the fact that they came from all directions.

But friends and old allies said he bore up with a dignity they remembered from his maverick Republican years in the House of Representatives from 1959 to 1965, from his turbulent years as Republican-Liberal and Liberal-Fusion mayor from 1966 to 1973, and from his fading years as a Democrat who fell far short of a presidential nomination in 1972 and a Senate nomination in 1980.

Then Lawrence, seeing that the Peacock was about to wear, bore up and, receiving her starboard broadside, ran close on her starboard quarter, where, by a heavy and well-directed fire, he cut the brig p150 to pieces.

Michael Cunningham, who won the Pulitzer for fiction with The Hours, later a hit flick, coughed nervously and kept sipping water through his reading, while Augusten Burroughs, who wrote the terrific Running with Scissors, and is considered by Entertainment Weekly one of our "25 funniest people," courageously bore up under a pan on the book page of that morning's Times.

They apparently bore up just fine.

The hype didn't bear up.

"You'll bear up," he said.

Bearing up?" "They took her from the sky.

Yuka Silvera's handsome costumes bear up under close scrutiny.

Tough, but I find I bear up well.