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Example sentences for: suffering

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His statue — inexplicably pinned halfway up a monolith in a very martyr-like pose, although he died in his bed (in China) — stands with its back to the sea beside a sculpted frieze dedicated to the suffering of his Japanese converts.
The songs are mystic in nature; many narrate the story of Christ’s life, his anguish, betrayal, his crucifixion and resurrection, and others praise the virtues of suffering and penance.
That's why, while we're suffering through a national crisis over alleged favors to Lewinsky, the one person who clearly has enjoyed a big payoff--at taxpayer expense--is the arch-dragoness, Linda Tripp.
Consider Jones' pièce de résistance : On "one particular evening," in response to "his inner demons," and more specifically to the Rockefeller Foundation's rejection of a grant application, Kinsey allegedly hanged himself by the hand and balls from an overhead pipe "long enough for this self-appointed Messiah of the sexually despised to experience much pain and suffering, precisely as he had intended."
If a speaker of Mina is suffering he will say that he is eating the wind, if he is comfortable he will say that he is eating life, if someone lends him money he will say he has eaten their credit.