Inured
[i'njuəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Inure
Checker: Noelle
Examples
- A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Inured now for so long a time to rooms with bare boards, black benchesdesks, and stoves, the blue saloon seemed to me gorgeous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I am inured to it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She clung to Ursula, who, through long usage was inured to this violation of a dark, uncreated, hostile world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What thorns and briers, what flints, he strewed in the path of feet not inured to rough travel! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But custom, combined with science--particularly science--inured me to it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I might suffer; I was inured to suffering: death itself had not, I thought, those terrors for me which it has for the softly reared. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I am so accustomed and inured to hard work that I don't know what fatigue is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But our warrior athletes must be wide-awake dogs, and must also be inured to all changes of food and climate. Plato. The Republic.
- By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Checker: Noelle