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:

  • Her daughter sits on the long-suffering family pet, a Newfoundland whose black-and-white coat comically echoes Madame Charpentier's elaborate dress.

  • 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).

  • There is no shortage of stereotypes: the beleaguered workaholic salaryman, the exotic geisha, the long-suffering Japanese housewife.

  • John Barrymore's long-suffering wife was Michael Strange.

  • Issue 3, the viability of the long-suffering tobacco bill, confounds everyone.


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