Endurance — staying power

Usage examples of stamina.

Then Brat eased the pressure momentarily, and Clint, taking it for granted that a falling back so near the post argued failing stamina, was glad that he would not have to ask his mount for the last ounce and relaxed a little.

Jesuits in seventeenth-century Spain, never recognized by Rome nor even by the Society, but persisting with grace and stamina there in California for hundreds of years the place had acquired extensions and outbuildings, got wired and rewired, plumbed and replumbed, until a series of bad investments had forced what was left of the sodality to put it up for rent and disperse to cheaper housing, though they continued to market the world-famous cucumber brandy bearing their name.

If Malik escapes now, will Silvercloud have the stamina to catch him again?

While it was true he had more power and stamina in his felidae form, he was worn out both mentally as well as spiritually, and his physical strength was waning.

To live longer and best protect your joints from the onslaught of impact, the best stamina workouts you can do are swimming, rowing, cycling, and exercising on an elliptical machine.

This patient has recuperated from his zombi trance, entirely through his own stamina.

Southwest deserts perhaps a tired salesman assigned to a territory so vast that it tested his stamina dazed by the daunting distances between destinations, by sun-silvered highways that seemed to go on forever.

In it, he was sitting at home in front of the television, trying to concentrate on the football game as his shrewish, dough-faced wife, dressed in a food-stained dressing gown, hectored him about his sleeping with Delia, the cute secretary from the steno pool, and how she was going to sue him for a divorce and collect a fat alimony, on which she was going to move to Mexico and enjoy the good life, and if that included a hot-blooded young Mexican with the stamina of a stallion, so much the better.

They on the other hand, catch bronchitis, or flu, seem unable to have the stamina to recuperate from it, and die with surprising ease.

Leading the fight against the Three-Year Law, he insisted in his speeches and in his book UArmee nouvelle that the war of the future would be one of mass armies using every citizen, that this was what the Germans were preparing, that reservists of twenty-five to thirty-three were at their peak of stamina and more committed than younger men without responsibilities, that unless France used all her reservists in the front line she would be subjected to a terrible “submersion.

The oval-shaped, sweet balums were believed to endow one with prolonged physical stamina.

I've seen other cadremen who could match or even exceed your physical dexterity, your stamina, your hand-eye coordination, your IQ.

I had talked all night, and no clubgoers had stamina enough to stay here that long.

He was handsome, had great stamina, and his body seemed chiseled from hard cocobolo wood.

To save the nation, that collection of connivers and nonentities around Lincoln needed the invigoration of a man with organizational genius, unparalleled stamina, and a willingness to use power.