Sentence examples for could hardly endure from inspiring English sources
Liberians could hardly endure more pessimism.
Ms. Heckart found she could hardly endure the role of a mother whose son is drowned by a little-girl murderer.
The country had made an amazing rebound, post-2008, that was fuelled mainly by the fisheries — the mackerel schools had miraculously come back — and by a huge boom in tourism that the country's delicate ecology could hardly endure.
The man could hardly stand, was losing his sight and hearing, had somehow just endured a night of reading aloud, answering questions from the audience, and now hours of signing books and posing for pictures.
The man who for 20 years had played so great a role in the world and who had marched north, south, east, and west across Europe could hardly be expected to endure the monotony of existence on a little island, aggravated by the self-imposed life of a recluse.
The presence of at least one frigate was necessary because an officer senior enough to command the station could hardly be expected to endure the hardships of life in a smaller vessel.
(As did his reputation. I may have said "literature endures" at the start of this review, but for more than two centuries Marvell's poems could hardly be said to have been in the canon at all).
