(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.
Unbearable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
(2) Thus tissue and cellular damage may not be ischemic in nature but rather mediated by other mechanisms such as unbearable mechanical stress.
(3) Otherwise it’s unbearable.” She glances over my shoulder again: “I’m going to have to change position.
(4) He also thanked nearly everyone who had been involved in the trial: his attorneys, his family, everyone who testified “with dignity” about their “unbearable” hardships.
(5) Often the prospect of going to court for victims is unbearable; they feel they have already been judged and they don’t want to go through the abuse again.
(6) For the patients with unbearable paroxystic pain, when medical treatment failed, the destruction of deafferented dorsal horns at the level of avulsion (Nashold procedure) could produce pain relief.
(7) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
(8) Anyone expecting the public to suddenly turn on Ailes in a way it hasn’t before is likely to be disappointed, Tyndall said, adding that part of Fox News’s classic-TV appeal is a re-creation of the permissive atmosphere that has historically made life unbearable for women in entertainment.
(9) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
(10) And which, in the case of Scarlett and MacKeown, grasps at any semblance of 'otherness', because the truth (it could easily happen to your child) is too unbearable to contemplate.
(11) The results are interpreted to suggest that persons who commit homicide-suicide are acting out a three-party rescue fantasy in an attempt to resolve unbearable stress.
(12) Almost 800 have taken the first step to taking their lives by becoming members of Dignitas, and 34 men and women, who feel their suffering has become unbearable, are ready to travel to Zurich and take a lethal drug overdose.
(13) Their songs ranged from the almost unbearably poignant ("Hand in Glove") to the frankly vulnerable ("How Soon is Now").
(14) Without medication the pain is unbearable: during some of my worst attacks, I've been known to bang my head on the wall.
(15) I have tickets for the knock-out rounds and it would be unbearable if Portugal were already on a plane home.
(16) Pessimists predict a human tide that will put an unbearable burden on food, jobs, schools, housing and healthcare.
(17) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
(18) He wanted to openly condemn this unbearable situation.
(19) The second half roared on towards its conclusion, the tension close to unbearable, when he announced that he would have to nip out once more as his earlier exit had clearly been the reason for Jô’s goal.
(20) After the election, when interest rates are rising and public services are falling apart, Labour would find governing impossible and unbearable if they had signed up to Osborne's killer cuts.