How to Use long-suffering in a Sentence

long-suffering

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  • Pour one out for your long-suffering tenants, who might have to eat some of those costs for you.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This long-suffering mother of the bride had tried her very best to talk sense into her daughter.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The pain for its long-suffering debt investors, however, isn’t over yet.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
  • As a long-suffering Angels fan, its a pleasure to at least be able to listen to them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
  • My long-suffering fan was today’s West in a duplicate game at her club.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow.
    — Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Robinhood is back in the news, though not in a way that will please the company or long-suffering shareholders.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But long-suffering American customers have been hit with a wave of price rises over the past few years.
    — Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025
  • Their long-suffering fans know that 2023 is a rebuilding year.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Jane presents the new song as a special gift to long-suffering Harmonizers.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Two years later, the Kings hired Brown to change the fortunes of a long-suffering franchise.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2025
  • Philadelphians can be tough on their hometown, griping about the traffic, the crime, the long-suffering sports teams.
    — Ingrid K. Williams, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Jets are a long-suffering franchise that has not reached the playoffs in 14 seasons.
    — Mark Lasota, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • This series has a real old-school vibe, with the reckless abandon of two long-suffering franchises.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The source for all that fast money rushing into the long-suffering small-cap benchmark came out of the biggest winners of the first half.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • His dismissal represented a stunning fall from grace for a man who helped change the fortunes of a long-suffering franchise.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Letters to his long-suffering wife, Ruth, provide a sense of the isolation that Bunche felt while away.
    — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In the actor’s eyes, the third season forces his long-suffering character to take a serious look inward.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2024
  • In reaction to these mishaps, Dubois’s long-suffering air and stony expression are priceless.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • The only bright spots are the long-suffering captain and crew aboard, who are doing the thankless job of trying to fix the as-yet-unfixable.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • And oh, did the long-suffering Knicks’ supporters revel in the victory.
    — Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • The safety of our nation demands it, and the long-suffering families of the fallen deserve nothing less.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Bayer Leverkusen’s long-suffering fans had waited 120 years for their team to win a league title.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Together, Aoun and Salam could usher in a new era for their country and its long-suffering residents.
    — Hanin Ghaddar, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2025
  • That’d be a brutal twist of fate for a long-suffering franchise that was viewed as the class of the NFC throughout the season.
    — Austin Mock, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • As Oz Cobb, Colin Farrell plays a long-suffering henchman trying to get on top for once.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • For one pitch-perfect game, at least, the long-suffering denizens of Leafs Nation were treated to something that almost felt like playoff calm.
    — Chris Johnston, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The Bears had snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, setting off panic among long-suffering Bears supporters.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

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