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:

  • What she knows, and what she thinks, determines whether she is a victim or an accomplice, a long-suffering spouse or a kind of co-conspirator.

  • 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.

  • The model for the temptress with snakes in her hair was Maria Zambaco, a sculptress of Greek background who was in turn Burne-Jones' pupil, studio assistant, and lover before he broke with her in 1869 and returned to his long-suffering wife.

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

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


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