How to Use long-suffering in a Sentence

long-suffering

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Pissarro’s mother was, true to the Jewish-mother stereotype, long-suffering and ever-complaining.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• To cast an effective vote, in other words, was to cast one for the winning candidate whose victory would produce a change in public policy favorable to the demands of the long-suffering minority group.
  — Charles Kesler, National Review, 20 June 2024
• The increasing acrimony at the highest level of politics shows no sign of ending – and in fact could prolong the uncertainty for Pakistan’s long-suffering people.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• So often, our elders are rendered in the imagination as long-suffering victims of capitalism who had to sacrifice greatly so that their grandchildren might live a better life.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The writer-director team of Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote — new to the series — bring perhaps too light of a touch to material that could be heavier, given that this is a story about a long-suffering kid battling fascist revolutionaries.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024