Example sentences for: suffered

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

  • Portugal suffered several years of political confusion, but stable democracy finally took hold.

  • There's the messed-up sexuality of Antigua, the way girls are taught to be virgins while boys are encouraged to be careless and promiscuous; Kincaid's heroines have suffered from this sick training, and here we watch it slowly kill her brother.

  • The PAPD suffered 37 fatalities-the largest loss of life of any police force in history.

  • Eighteen-year-old Jesse Gelsinger, who suffered from a rare liver disorder, died from a blood reaction caused during a gene therapy experiment administered by the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Human Gene Therapy.

  • The French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie was reported as saying that France's vast woodlands had suffered nothing comparable since detailed records began in the reign of Louis XIV--"Since 1660 at least, there has been no phenomenon on such a vast scale."


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