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How to use forbearing in a sentence

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However, another character in the novel offers a less forbearing view of the parlous financial circumstances of the audit staff.
You're surrounded by amazingly patient, forbearing people, especially your parents.
Andrea wasn't the sort to nag, rather such a quiet, forbearing type that people would hold her up as an example.
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.
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?
He was surprisingly forbearing about the fight Joe got into, much to Joe's astonishment.
He would do the same if they acted according to His injunctions, and remained forbearing and just.
It conveyed a sense of forbearing and compassionate understanding in which the idea that people are human and mistakes are natural was embodied.
I am a forbearing man, and I am still waiting for your answer to my proposal.
If we are very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all.
Some readers therefore concluded that the forbearing Dr. Spielvogel must be the hero of the novel.
John is a lonely gay man with a father fixation and a forbearing best friend who worries about the approach of middle age in the form of his 40th birthday.
I shrug at the driver, a forbearing Asian man who shrugs back.
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.
Where a powerful historical tradition exists, victims can be astonishingly forbearing, as Dalit communities have been.
He that finds himself spiritually capable of forbearing and comprehending, of forgiving, is within the Law, is in the peace of Christ.
It is more act of forbearing with himself on the one hand and denying or at least resisting the myth of the artist on the other.
This model has a certain appeal because it provides a rationale for forbearing from retail rate regulation without actually developing competing networks.
So we cannot really blame those involved for taking a very, and unfortunately even excessively, lenient and forbearing an approach to cases from the outset.
For the moment Mr Thaksin is being unusually forbearing, giving his sister plenty of room and professing that he doesn't even want to return to Thailand for the moment, let alone to government.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing?
We are grateful to you, Ted and I, for having been so forbearing in the past.
After twenty-five years bearing, and forbearing, and childbearing, you will smile at your gentle-shepherding of to-day.
The painters were calm and forbearing, and scrupulously courteous to each other.
The father was prudent, cautious, wise, and often generous and forbearing.
I never heard such sweet forbearing kindness expressed in a voice, as she expressed in making this reply.
Indeed, the Indian gave him but little opportunity for the exercise of a forbearing temper, as he had come prepared for the occasion.
He was forgiving and forbearing and kinder than I had any right to expect.
There are insults which even my forbearing spirit will not meekly endure.
In the mean time, the Romans, he added, had been moderate and forbearing.
We are scarcely amiable and forbearing enough to submit to it.
She noticed that he advanced and spoke to her with a forbearing gentleness, which was more like his manner to her mother than his ordinary manner to herself.
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