A person could just barely endure the heat during the 3 hours post meridian if he made sure not the slightest tendril of air from the blast furnace outside was permitted through the tiniest crack into the interior.

It was painful to walk--hell, it was painful to move--and I wanted to be home locked inside my own place so bad that I could just barely endure the process of getting there.

Mr. Gerry, who first proposed a Woodstock theme park for the site and barely endured the original, has only so much patience for Woodstock history.

She could barely endure the powerful emotions he was experiencing.

A swimming pool in Florida, we soon learned, made the difference between barely enduring the withering summer months and actually enjoying them.

"They barely endure it coming from me."

She could barely endure the silence that followed.

He left her for a moment, and she could barely endure to see him out of her sight.

He made his reports to the brood mind, but even there the reception was warmer and warmer, until he could barely endure to communicate.

By now, they barely endure, two bumps lying 1,400 yards apart and sticking no more than two feet out of the water at high tide.