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:

  • Carmela is more long-suffering than ever.

  • And long-suffering, one might infer: "He was so careful of not hurting anyone's feelings that he often listened to utterly fatuous arguments for hours on end."

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

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

  • One year, Lady Bird Johnson sells, the next she doesn't; or rather, one way we spin a story about her (icon in repose) works, but another way (long-suffering wife of a serial philanderer) doesn't.


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