Example sentences for: suffers

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

  • The oddball of the group is the Whitney Museum of American Art, which suffers from an institutional version of bipolar disorder.

  • I eschew the term homonym because it suffers from an inherent ambiguity: a homograph is, to lexicographers, at least, a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different etymology ( bear 1 animal/ bear 2 carry; bore 1 carried/ bore 2 drill/ bore 3 tire/ bore 4 tide wave); a homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another but is spelled differently ( bear/bare; bier/beer; bore/boar ).

  • The other parameter we used was the integrated response which also suffers some shortcomings.

  • What the imaginary quilting business did produce was a loan that she and her husband, Linn, who is 86 and suffers from congestive heart failure, cannot possibly afford.

  • The Wall Street Journal editorial page speculated that the president suffers from an "anti-social personality disorder," before concluding that "in Mr. Clinton's case a strict diagnosis does not hold."


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