How To Use Forbearing In A Sentence
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You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop?
The Giant's Robe
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I hereby make a vow, not to cheat, but to win quizzes here on in on my wit and intelligence alone, forbearing all use of my fox-like cunning.
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‘I believe that is his daughter's name,’ replied the man with forbearing patience as he ran his eyes up the mast.
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Andrea wasn't the sort to nag, rather such a quiet, forbearing type that people would hold her up as an example.
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John Kidd is to be commended generally, and specifically for forbearing to anagrammatize Gabler's name as Gartle.
'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange
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she was unforbearing with the slower students
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If we are very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all.
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I am a forbearing man, and I am still waiting for your answer to my proposal.
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Thank you for being so forbearing.
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He was surprisingly forbearing about the fight Joe got into, much to Joe's astonishment.
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On the other hand, the reverse is also true: killing that is not defensive in nature violates the demand of mercy that we should be forbearing and patient with a person unless he is dangerous to us.
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I shall not enter into his literary quarrels further than to say that he seems to me, on the whole, to have been forbearing, which is the more striking as he tells us repeatedly that he was naturally vindictive.
Among My Books First Series
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By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, Prov. xxv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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There was something in the man so far beyond any mere unsociality or sourness previously evinced, that even the forbearing good-nature of his guest could no longer endure it.
The Piazza Tales
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It conveyed a sense of forbearing and compassionate understanding in which the idea that people are human and mistakes are natural was embodied.
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Andrea wasn't the sort to nag, rather such a quiet, forbearing type that people would hold her up as an example.
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When reading about Patience in the Guide, His Holiness spoke of a man he met in Northern Ireland who had been shot and blinded who, completely without animosity to his assailant, displayed the kind of forbearing patience to which Shantideva refers.
Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-jug
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I suppose you Irish descendants are forbearing people?
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How would my friend know what a forbearing and saintly person I am if I didn't tell her the challenges I face from my neighbor?
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However, Mr Harvie has taken issue with criticism of himself over his constant use of his Blackberry to update his Twitter page during the evening by Mr Scott, who described the Prime Minister as "forbearing" about the "tweeting", and later by social etiquette guru Peter York who wrote in The Scotsman that Mr Harvie was "guilty of the worst kind of behaviour".
Undefined
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He has a forbearing nature; he accepts trouble with a smile.
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According to the way of thinking promoted by Horowitz and the Students for Academic Freedom, however, my forbearing critique would hardly have been enough to absolve the stain of the readings.
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_ Well, let's favour our apprehensions 230 with forbearing that a little; for, if my heart were not hoopt with adamant, the conceipt of this would have burst it: but heark thee.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.
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John is a lonely gay man with a father fixation and a forbearing best friend (played by John Cardone with impish charm) who worries about the approach of middle age in the form of his 40th birthday.
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Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46
Agesilaus
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On the signboard outside the village hall, a mysterious announcement appeared: Let all men recognize your unselfishness, your considerateness, your forbearing spirit.
A Christmas Parable By Judith Moran
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So that each, having only their own private injuries to resent, felt free in forbearing.
The Hidden Hand
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He would do the same if they acted according to His injunctions, and remained forbearing and just.
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However, another character in the novel offers a less forbearing view of the parlous financial circumstances of the audit staff.
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And that's why evangelicals returned finally to scripture to see what he says about how one is rightly related to God with its implications for how to get along with others and loving others and being forbearing and so forth.
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My love to you is a _pitying, sparing, and forgiving love; a forbearing and tender-hearted love_: so must you be to one another, Col. iii.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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The party has no tradition of back-stabbing its leaders: on the contrary, it has been very forbearing of them, even when a stab in the back might have been in everyone's interest.
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And though his income, as you know, was so small, he never ran in debt, and by an exact but open oeconomy, escaped all imputation of meanness: while by forbearing either to conceal, or repine at his limited fortune, he blunted even the raillery of the dissipated, by frankly and good humouredly meeting it half way.
Camilla
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`She will ramble on, no doubt, but I would ask you be forbearing.
A TIME OF WAR
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He has a forbearing nature; he accepts trouble with a smile.
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I shrug at the driver, a forbearing Asian man who shrugs back.
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You're surrounded by amazingly patient, forbearing people, especially your parents.
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Generous, too, he appeared to her, in forbearing to apply to Sir Hugh, without her permission; disinterested, in declaring he did not wish for her hand without her heart: and noble, in not seeking her in a clandestine manner, but referring every thing to
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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The USA has had to take an hands-off approach to the Salvadorean election ... for once forbearing, at least overtly, to threaten that tiny nation with dire consequences for voting its conscience.
It truly soothes the soul to watch the USA empire in its death-throes...
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I'm not always this forbearing - see the letters pages of this issue.
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‘You have been most forbearing with us during these difficult times,’ Yumni said.
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The forbearing wisdom on Sam's features was illusory, surely.
THE LAST RAVEN
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seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression
