How to Use endurance in a Sentence

endurance

noun
  • The exercise program is designed to increase both strength and endurance.
  • Life’s too short to read books for the sake of ego or endurance.
    — Riza Cruz, ELLE, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The best way to peak endurance is by adding more weight.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Next up is a test of strength and endurance: situps and pushups.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 30 Apr. 2022
  • But the drug does increase blood flow to the heart and can boost endurance.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • In this view, even one opera might prove a test of endurance.
    — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The 64-year-old says her whole life has been about endurance, but the same could be said of Sofia.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
  • But the hardest test of his endurance to this point has been the waiting.
    — Alina Simone, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Many teachers say they've been pushed past the point of endurance.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 28 Aug. 2022
  • For HODLers of crypto, the last couple months have been quite the test of endurance.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2022
  • By the end of rehearsals, the singers have the endurance for this musical marathon.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • As with any good reunion, the movie’s subject is the endurance of the past in the present, for better or worse.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The car will race at Le Mans, the 24-hour endurance motorsport race in June.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 31 May 2024
  • Their endurance is at once a paean to their spirits and a well of prescient lessons.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • What were the secrets to this mighty kingdom’s endurance?
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Like a runner in a marathon, the job demands endurance (and maybe a good deal of coffee).
    — Nina Metz, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The goal of the free program is to progressively build your endurance as the weeks go on.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Plant was putting them through a cheerful endurance test, but the filmmakers were used to the hunt.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 17 Feb. 2025
  • And there’s a lot of insight into the light and great endurance of his character at the end of his life.
    — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The real endurance record that matters is the cannonball run coast-to-coast in the USA.
    — New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2025
  • For activists, the endurance of the protests among ethnic minorities is a sign of what’s to come.
    — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The high level of vacancies is a sign of the job market’s strength and endurance.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Enlarge / Pouch cells of the sort tested for endurance.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 July 2022
  • In other words, the focus of a ski trainer is endurance.
    — Men's Health, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In a 2020 interview, Rydell talked about the endurance of the trio as a touring act.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Many of the participants did go on to race in GT and endurance classes.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Slip on a pair of liner shorts under your street clothes for a shot of comfort and endurance.
    — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And this strength is beneficial to her stroke, on turns and to her endurance.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Nipple clamps turn pleasure into endurance, pushing the limits of what your body can take.
    — Colin Bedell, Them, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The 93-year-old Talese was one of the first guests in the door and seemed to be locked in a tacit endurance competition with Martha Stewart—both of whom outlasted the crop of twentysomethings in attendance.
    — Daniel Paik, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025

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