How to Use long-suffering in a Sentence
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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 -
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 safety of our nation demands it, and the long-suffering families of the fallen deserve nothing less.
— Stepheny Price, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2024 -
In the actor’s eyes, the third season forces his long-suffering character to take a serious look inward.
— Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Aug. 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 -
Then there was a molten cavern with an open-mouthed oven: the furnace room, where Davis’ character, a long-suffering low-level demon, has spent centuries shoveling coal.
— Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
The quality of the show’s ensemble — including Bang, who made for a deliciously awful villain, and Duff, who brought depth and complexity to her role as the long-suffering wife — more than made up for a few plot twists that strained credulity.
— Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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