bear up against
Example Sentences
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To bear up against nature’s indifference can be invigorating and also corrective.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021
How could people accustomed to ease and comfort bear up against such hardships?
From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by Wingate, F. R.
The most robust could only bear up against it a few days.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
Their own narrow fortunes, the very straits and privations of poverty, with all their cruel wounds to honest pride, and all their sore trials of temper, she could bear up against with an undaunted courage.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
Will you have the strength resolutely to bear up against this most mortifying contrast, to banish the thought of it far from you—or will it embitter—eventually perhaps crush the remainder of your existence?
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
