How to Use suffer in a Sentence

suffer

verb

• The team suffered a defeat in the play-offs.
• I hate to see a child suffer.
• We suffered a great deal during the war.
• She suffered an injury during the game.
• He died instantly and did not suffer.
• He suffered a heart attack and died instantly.
• She suffered through another one of their long visits.
• Their relationship suffered because of her work.
• The cousin suffered a bruise and small cut to the head.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
• Well, Dunk and Egg is about the small folk who suffer at the hands of the game of thrones as it's played by the nobles.
  — EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
• This week’s floods are the most deadly Spain has suffered in decades.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
• Davies suffered a left oblique strain in just his second start of the year back on April 8 against the Dodgers.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
• Rodgers suffered a torn Achilles and will be out for the remainder of the season for the New York Jets.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The non-phones suffered a blow when one of their troops defected to the other side.
  — Megan Angelo, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
• The man had also stabbed himself in the head and suffered puncture wounds.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
• There were no injuries, and the planes did not suffer any damage.
  — Amanda Maile, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2023
• Game fish and birds and all these other creatures suffer for that.
  — Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Kent suffered two of his most painful injuries as a stunt performer in Rush films.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
• The Cadillac struck the rear of the semi at a high rate of speed which caused the driver to suffer fatal injuries.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
• The driver was ejected from the car and suffered fatal injuries.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
• On the field, the Toreros are assured of suffering their first losing season since 2010.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
• In May 2023, Malin suffered a rare spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2024
• Stevens sported a bandage on his chin after the game, suffered from a cut on one of his scrambles.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• Durant missed 10 games with a left ankle sprain suffered on March 8 in a pregame workout.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• There’ll be losers and winners around the Earth, which will clearly lead to places that suffer migration.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
• The city of Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast suffered some of the worst damage from the magnitude 7.6 quake.
  — Miho Inada, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• Customers were charged fees, and their credit scores suffered as a result.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 11 July 2023
• And while our hands and bodies may suffer the rigors of icy winds and dry, heated air, there's one body part that suffers most of all: lips.
  — Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 22 Dec. 2022
• Unfortunately, Mosley suffered a groin injury in the third quarter, forcing him to exit the game.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
• The patients who had the most inconsistent sleep schedules were almost 25% more likely to suffer a heart problem than those with a consistent routine.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024