Sentence examples for tests of endurance from inspiring English sources

Rites of initiation were transformed into barbarous tests of endurance, the boys undergoing flagellation and competing in enduring it—sometimes to the very death under the eyes of tourists attracted by the sadistic spectacle.

Everybody's doing tests of endurance these days.

Even with 7 a.m. starts, these were uncommonly brutal tests of endurance and character.

Mr. Paulsen's prose is Hemingway-terse, and his plots tend to involve tests of endurance.

Our relations would, I hope, sur- vive even heavier tests of endurance!

The Boston Marathon is one of the most famous tests of endurance.

In "Marcel," the wide-eyed Marcello Magni endures a test of endurance and fitness from the vaguely bureaucratic Jos Houben.

It is a test of endurance.

It was not just a test of endurance, however.

The real test of endurance came the following day.

'Time of the Assassins' is a test of endurance.