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Meanings of bearable in anglès

Capable of being borne though unpleasant.

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Examples for "endurable"
1
But it keeps no endurable brands of English or American smoking tobacco.
Who is mark twain?
2
Somewhat astonishingly, it made enough money to launch this equally endurable follow-up.
The Irish Times
3
The smell of this horse blanket was less endurable than the cold.
The Call of the Canyon
4
It's not trendy glamour, it's endurable luxury, the first retail banker said.
Reuters
5
This expression I desire to repeat here for perpetuation in endurable form.
Fifty Years of Public Service / Personal Recollections of Shelby...
1
Even the imperious Mr. Delvile was more supportable here than in London.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
2
The only thing which makes it supportable for a while is curiosity.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
3
Control has been spectacularly sustained, but does that make it admirable or supportable?
The Irish Times
4
There are no ills which are not more supportable after food.
The Parisians — Volume 12
5
Why, then, should my absence now be less supportable to you than heretofore?
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-...
1
Finding the air sufferable, he came forth on to the steps.
The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
2
During the time, the suffering is at least sufferable.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
3
It is a peep, a part revelation, just sufferable, of the Olympian god-Joveplaying carpet-knight.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
4
Lady Ann was offended, and seriously: was alliance with such a woman permissible or sufferable?
There & Back
5
Even Bully Pigeon was sufferable (as Paddy observed), if he was not altogether agreeable.
The Three Midshipmen
Usage of bearable in anglès
1
The certainty would have been bearable; I had courage to face ruin.
The Helmet of Navarre
2
Woodward dared to take another drink; the pain was severe, but bearable.
Speaks the Nightbird
3
They don't seem so dreadful then; they seem more bearable and ordinary.
Five on a treasure island
4
But we gained a gravelly tone that made friends' poetry recitations bearable.
The Guardian
5
This means settling upon a narrative that makes what has happened bearable.
The Guardian
6
A day-night Test makes that time difference a little bit more bearable.
The South African
7
They talked briefly in the car while the pain was momentarily bearable.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
8
The weather was pretty calm, and the cold without breeze was bearable.
The English at the North Pole / Part I of the Adventures of Capt...
9
He felt a deep conflict in his loyalties, but it was bearable.
O+F
10
At night, the only bearable place is in bed with many blankets.
The new yorker
11
The cold, as we waited for the next train, seemed quite bearable.
The forgotten soldier
12
The twinges of the gout had not wholly disappeared, but remained bearable.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 07
13
Stop wanting the pain to ease, just enough to make it bearable.
Deadly promises
14
Quite a bearable band there: it does not play any patriotic airs.
The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta
15
The weight of it was even and bearable-welcomed by us both.
High on arrival
16
There was little or no humidity, and the heat was quite bearable.
In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
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