How to Use bearable in a Sentence
bearable
adjective- He's in a great deal of pain, but the medication makes it bearable.
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But the tough times seem more bearable now, at the high point.
— Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2017 -
Here are all the new places that helped make 2017 bearable for me.
— Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017 -
This all gets a lot more bearable with a good pair of socks, though.
— Eleanor Hildebrandt, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018 -
It’s made of a linen-rayon blend that keeps it breezy and bearable in the heat.
— Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2024 -
But what if there was a way to make iPhone calls bearable?
— Yoni Heisler, BGR, 28 Jan. 2022 -
But Sam Means of the Format has something to make the wait a bit more bearable.
— Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Oct. 2020 -
There are so many ways for you, even now, to make this hard world more bearable.
— Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 31 July 2017 -
Dew points should max out in the low 60s, which should be low enough to keep the heat index bearable.
— Greg Porter, Washington Post, 9 June 2017 -
Only one man would be bearable for the next four years.
— Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020 -
Warm days are much more bearable when they’re spent on the water.
— Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2021 -
There are a few things coming down the pike that could help make things a bit more bearable.
— Leigh Morgan, al, 23 June 2022 -
For drivers like Jim Ward, who own their cars, the drought is more bearable.
— Mark Landler, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020 -
Sharing a few steins and sausages is sure to make the changing of the seasons more bearable.
— Samantha Nelson, RedEye Chicago, 18 Sep. 2017 -
Try to establish ground rules to make the time more bearable.
— Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020 -
Feel free to add this to your workout playlist to make those last few abs reps bearable.
— Alex Rees, Cosmopolitan, 29 Aug. 2016 -
Getting through months of staying home was all the more bearable with a glass of glou glou.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2020 -
Best time to visit: Spring, fall and winter - when the weather is bearable and the birds are out and about.
— Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018 -
The sun had set, and, in darkness, the heat in the stadium was somewhat bearable.
— Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023 -
Plus, huddling with a loved one can make the Antarctic cold a bit more bearable.
— Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019 -
It’s just one tiny thing that makes the hot weather a little more bearable.
— Christa Sgobba, SELF, 21 Aug. 2020 -
That looks bearable set against profits of €1.5bn ($1.8bn) last year.
— The Economist, 10 May 2018 -
In London, the convivial pubs, which make the short days and long nights bearable, are shuttered.
— Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020 -
Boston still has a long way to go to make buses bearable.
— BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019 -
Yes, and season 40 was one of the few things that made the first couple of months of quarantine bearable.
— Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2020 -
Not Switzerland or Tokyo clean, for sure, but bearable.
— David Harsanyi, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019 -
To see the hoops that the Michigander moms jump through weekly to make ends meet, made the ups and downs of daily life bearable.
— Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021 -
These are the satellites that make inflight Wi-Fi bearable.
— Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2016 -
There are all sorts of ways to make election season not only bearable, but fun.
— Angela Haupt, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024 -
All the horrors and perils of Congo Sheppard described seemed bearable, did not scare me or warn me away.
— Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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