How to Use long-suffering in a Sentence

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  • The safety of our nation demands it, and the long-suffering families of the fallen deserve nothing less.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Pour one out for your long-suffering tenants, who might have to eat some of those costs for you.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This long-suffering mother of the bride had tried her very best to talk sense into her daughter.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Letters to his long-suffering wife, Ruth, provide a sense of the isolation that Bunche felt while away.
    Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The source for all that fast money rushing into the long-suffering small-cap benchmark came out of the biggest winners of the first half.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • Robinhood is back in the news, though not in a way that will please the company or long-suffering shareholders.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Philadelphians can be tough on their hometown, griping about the traffic, the crime, the long-suffering sports teams.
    Ingrid K. Williams, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There’s not so much as a morsel of hope for a reunion, though a U.K. No. 1 album should give some comfort to long-suffering fans of Oasis.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Same guys who roared back time and again, scoring in droves, sending six players to the All-Star Game, and raising the dormant hopes of a long-suffering fan base.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Their long-suffering fans know that 2023 is a rebuilding year.
    Steve Silverman, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The only bright spots are the long-suffering captain and crew aboard, who are doing the thankless job of trying to fix the as-yet-unfixable.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The pain for its long-suffering debt investors, however, isn’t over yet.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Jane presents the new song as a special gift to long-suffering Harmonizers.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Bayer Leverkusen’s long-suffering fans had waited 120 years for their team to win a league title.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The new-look Detroit Lions, now just 60 minutes away from a Super Bowl, have instilled hope, joy and even confidence in a long-suffering fan base.
    Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In reaction to these mishaps, Dubois’s long-suffering air and stony expression are priceless.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • There are a bunch of funny gags, too, the best of which involves the ever-evolving hairstyles of Eden’s long-suffering obstetrician (John Carroll Lynch).
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • Arm Holdings priced its initial public offering at the top end of its range to raise $4.87 billion in the largest listing of the year, one that could give a major lift to long-suffering equity markets.
    Gillian Tan, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Earlier in the week, small-caps were strong outperformers, giving false hope to investors in the long-suffering category.
    WSJ, 10 June 2023
  • His long-suffering canine companion, Gromit, was originally conceived as a cat, but Park found a dog far easier to craft.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 July 2024
  • Policymakers could have found a way to ramp up resources to long-suffering districts like Detroit sooner.
    Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2024
  • Both teams have nurtured long-suffering fan bases, spent decades getting their souls crushed by the Lakers and freely exchanged players — and coaches — like friendly neighbors borrowing cups of sugar.
    Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2023
  • But the war between the military factions has also swept across the country to the long-suffering western region of Darfur — an area already blighted by two decades of genocidal violence.
    Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Sutherland made his mark in Hollywood, but to those long-suffering Expos fans, he will also be remembered as a Canadian who became the club’s biggest booster!
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
  • Maybe he’s energized by the prospect of taking a long-suffering franchise to its first Super Bowl since 1969, and is even intrigued by the notion of winning over the notoriously critical New York media.
    Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Portia gives them the long-suffering Varley (Lorraine Ashbourne) to help stretch their budget, which Penelope secretly contributes to.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 June 2024
  • As Christopher’s long-suffering father, Brian Brightman deftly reflects a man in pain, though his emotions are a tad too internalized.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Come on, Perry Minasian, guarantee your long-suffering fans a postseason spot.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • His long-suffering companion, Jack Dunphy, is a humorless scold.
    Mike Hale, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But those cuts will also be bad news for the environmental and ecological disaster unfolding just to the north, at the shallow, shimmering and long-suffering Salton Sea.
    Henry Fountain Mette Lampcov, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023

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