Example sentences for: suffered

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

  • As you know, the Roman and the Ottoman empires suffered from "grave internal weaknesses" but persisted for centuries.

  • Thousands who had suffered during the fervid 1960s and 1970s, including the forceful pragmatist Deng Xiaoping, were rehabilitated.

  • I've been fascinated by her for years--when she was married to Mike Medavoy, in Hollywood, she suffered greatly and neurasthenically, having to make do on his pathetic $2 million a year salary; no welfare mother had as hard a time, I can assure you.

  • Colombia suffered its worst earthquake since 1875.

  • As they had suffered slights of either incomprehension or contempt for their religious customs before, they simply could not believe it was not deliberate, and mutiny broke out at Meerut, 40 km (25 miles) north of Delhi.


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