How to Use suffering in a Sentence

suffering

noun

• They hope these new drugs will help to bring an end to the suffering of arthritis patients.
• His lawsuit seeks damages for pain and suffering.
• The two women described their suffering at the time and in the years since.
  — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2023
• And so the pain and suffering is going to get a lot worse.
  — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2022
• Into the suffering, the bloodshed, and the agony of civilians there.
  — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• But tonight the squirrel is the soloist in the orchestra of suffering.
  — Ellen Bass, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
• The tyranny of the abstract leads to acute and frenzied suffering.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• The turmoil, pain and suffering necessary to right the ship is at hand.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• They were meant to stress that the horror of Auschwitz-Birkenau lies in the suffering of people held and killed there.
  — Czarek Sokolowski The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
• It’s been said that pain is inevitable, but that suffering is a choice.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• The city of Santa Cruz acknowledges the suffering of the peoples of the Middle East.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• These accounts of children’s deaths just scrape the surface of the suffering that’s out there.
  — Frank H. McCourt Jr., Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• Experts’ best bet was to sedate the whale to ease its suffering.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• In Gaza City, there are more and more severe suffering.
  — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2023
• The total effect of the suffering is just starting to take hold.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• So done with the fetishization of female pain and suffering.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 4 Oct. 2022
• Being able to feel the pain and suffering of a client is quite another.
  — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• How to make meaning of one’s life, of life itself and the evanescence of memories, in the midst of pain and suffering?
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
• Michael Fanone blamed him for his career loss, 18 months of suffering.
  — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• The fasting is aimed at bringing the faithful closer to God and reminding them of the suffering of the poor.
  — Niniek Karmini, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
• But why, when we’re given the option to suffer or not, do so many of us choose suffering?
  — Dr. Sharon Malone, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
• Yet all these monuments to the suffering of the poor were written by authors who were not poor.
  — Lennard J. Davis, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
• The suffering of those who are at the bottom of the caste pyramid — known as Dalits — has continued.
  — Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
• There’s laughter and music and dogs and bubbles and even when there’s pain and suffering there’s always love and light to be found.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
• And now the world is so primal and going back to killing and there’s so much suffering happening.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2024
• Donald Trump just wants to throw a grenade in everything and create more chaos and more suffering across the globe.
  — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024
• Our thoughts are with all the ones that disappeared and lost lives on both sides, in a conflict filled only with pain and suffering.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
• Athens is a metropolis that has been shaped by the sufferings and triumphs of its past.
  — Demetrios Ioannou, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
• Western reporters have had to watch the suffering from a distance.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2024
• However, Rob is soon drawn into the intrigues of the royal court and must fight once more—for the lives of his patients, for the recognition of his work, and against a new and profound challenge: the suffering of the human soul.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024