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
  • 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
  • My long-suffering fan was today’s West in a duplicate game at her club.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • As Oz Cobb, Colin Farrell plays a long-suffering henchman trying to get on top for once.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The Bears had snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, setting off panic among long-suffering Bears supporters.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Boohoo’s long-suffering shareholders are set to vote on the appointments on December 20.
    — Robert Olsen, Forbes, 12 Dec. 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
  • After nearly 20 years, the bumbling, cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his long-suffering dog Gromit are back.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Then there was Sony’s long-suffering effort to expand its Spider-Man-adjacent series of Marvel films.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Issuing new stock would be a blow to the company’s long-suffering shareholders, diluting the value of their holdings.
    — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 15 Oct. 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

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