Example sentences for: suffers

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

  • 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 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."

  • After all, the Post notes, the U.S. suffers from an acute shortage of organs for transplant.

  • Your sharp demolition of Miller's Velvet Underground chapter--and man-oh-man, I would not like to be on the wrong end of your critical contempt--convinces me that he suffers from a parallel syndrome.

  • all the more remarkable since she suffers, of course, from dyslexia (hence her failure on the writing test at one of those firms jordan sent her to).


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