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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Finally, after the long-suffering rodents had learned the route, Lai bombarded half the rats with microwaves similar to the kind that's emitted from mobile phones.


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