(a.) Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
Example Sentences:
(1) I mean, if there was a letter from 50 midwives saying: ‘The only thing that makes our lives bearable is watching Poldark’ – that’s a worthwhile letter.
(2) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
(3) We will retain the UK rebate, but it must be bearable for the other net contributors."
(4) Rival Tesco Mobile charges a bearable 25p a minute or 10p a text.
(5) It was the only way to make the journey bearable.” He adds: “The trains are now more than 30 years old, and the number of high-speed jarring bumps has significantly increased – I’m extremely concerned about the possibility of another Hatfield incident.
(6) Their leaders might favour the rich and keep the masses in poverty but "because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to the ordinary people".
(7) The flight home was bearable, but I started thinking to myself, "Look, you are in your mid-60s, with stents in your heart and a daily pharmaceutical regime in a myriad glowing colours.
(8) There is a connection between the metallic concentrations causing respiration deteriorations and the bearable metallic concentrations (starting lethal thresholds).
(9) Whether such a system can provide a comfortable, humanly bearable ride is completely unclear.” Musk’s elaborate vision may have attracted plenty of media attention and Silicon Valley funding, but it also highlights society’s tendency to get caught up with new transportation technologies, instead of the less exciting but perhaps more workable solutions - some of which may already exist.
(10) What’s more, new direct flights four times a week in summer with Delta from Heathrow start on 27 May, making what was a torturous journey – with connections in either Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco or Vancouver – a more bearable 11-hour trip.
(11) We are not only looking at what is technically feasible but what is socially bearable and how we are really going to manage that kind of transition,” he said.
(12) In the meantime, the status quo has been made more bearable thanks to the architects of the peace process, who have spent billions to prop up the Palestinian government, create conditions of prosperity for decision-makers in Ramallah, and dissuade the population from confronting the occupying force.
(13) Well, all these things make a city bearable, but they don’t make a city valuable.” As the tech companies bid for contracts, Haque observed, the real target of their advertising is clear: “The people it really speaks to are the city managers who can say, ‘It wasn’t me who made the decision, it was the data.’” Of course, these speakers who rejected the corporate, top-down idea of the smart city were themselves demonstrating their own technological initiatives to make the city, well, smarter.
(14) The study says that Greece’s debt burden can be made more bearable by waiving payments until the economy has recovered and then giving Athens longer to pay.
(15) To us, their silence – the greater quiet of the whole house – tells a different and less bearable story.
(16) With temperatures at a pleasantly bearable -1C, some of the crew went on to the ice surrounding the ship in all directions and killed time by making igloos.
(17) Additional evidence from both experiments helped to rule out alternative explanations concerning drinking expectancies, alcohol's ability to enhance mood, and its ability to make the task more bearable.
(18) "The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day, and the things it made bearable were another failed family – the first one was not my fault but all adopted children blame themselves," she said.
(19) Discovered a way to make mastectomy drains bearable?
(20) Overall, physiotherapy was well accepted since episodes of urinary incontinence were less frequent and therefore bearable; however, changes in patients' behavior play a role.