Example sentences for: long-suffering

How can you use “long-suffering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Like Janet McTeer in Tumbleweeds , she plays a woman who's a, well, tumbleweed who gravitates to men she shouldn't gravitate to and takes her long-suffering daughter along for the fall.

  • Nearly 50 years after China conquered Tibet, the Dalai Lama and his long-suffering subjects have achieved a victory of sorts: They have become the world's champion victims.

  • This ancient history forms the basis of demands for self-determination on the part of the long-suffering Albanian Kosovars.

  • He returned to the Princeton area in the 1970s, where he was taken care of by the long-suffering Alicia, now his ex-wife (she supported him partly through computer programming, partly on welfare).

  • Both are married--Anna to the morose Luria and Grein to the long-suffering Leah, with whom he has two grown children whom he regards with a kind of detached disgust.


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