Example sentences for: durable

How can you use “durable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And the way to get lower interest rates and more investment and durable consumption spending and lower unemployment, all of which I favor, is not to increase thriftiness or to cut deficits.

  • The data in this study may also be relevant to current efforts to develop a therapeutic AIDS vaccine designed to retard disease progression rather than prevent infection, since they suggest that durable maintenance of low-level viremia may be difficult to achieve.

  • Special Operations Forces into Afghanistan, perhaps as part of a team joined to a deployment of the CIA's own officers, would have required a major policy initiative (probably combined with efforts to secure the support of at least one or two neighboring countries) to make a long-term commitment, establish a durable presence on the ground, and be prepared to accept the associated risks and costs.

  • Lip service, as in the phrase to pay lip service --from the act of raising one's voice publicly in prayer or song while inwardly harboring contrary convictions--is probably the most widespread and durable formulation.

  • Now, as he squinted at the red lights in Kemp's fists and felt his companion's boon personality radiating in his direction, he also faced the knowledge that life was more durable than pain, more difficult than you could have imagined, and yet still you lived, as he now lived, seeing that his last campaign, the battle to the candidacy, would be his last success.


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