How to Use suffix in a Sentence

suffix

noun
  • Map these suffixes to their class of medicine.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Look for a name ending in -ator, as many strong beers have this suffix.
    — Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The -ette suffix did not die out when women finally won the right to vote.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Nouns formed with the Latin suffix -tion are often both count and noncount nouns.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2022
  • And the final four are a suffix attached to a landline or mobile phone.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The suffix -vik, meaning bay, is a common feature in place names throughout the Nordic region.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • The suffix -y here is the same as in words like doggy or smarty, used to form nicknames or informal descriptors.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • They are commonly referred to as énarques, a word combining the school’s name with the suffix for a ruler, as in monarchy.
    — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Corecore is a play on the name of the suffix itself and can best be described as a form of visual poetry that is meant to evoke certain emotions.
    — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Every address ending in that suffix can be governed by the company itself.
    — Phil Lodico, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • Assuming the name is right, companies don’t add the suffix Pro carelessly.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Address the e-mail to the person's mobile phone number followed by the cellular carrier's e-mail suffix.
    — Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 11 July 2021
  • German street names mostly end with suffixes like Straße, weg, allee, gasse, which are variations on street, way, lane, boulevard, or alley.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • This email contains the suffix of Midco Network, a regional cable provider.
    — Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Will scientists loop back to the beginning and reuse the letters, perhaps with a numerical suffix?
    — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2021
  • His namesake, contractor Walker Berry Kroeger — neither used their first name nor a suffix — was his uncle.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The suffix -core comes from hard core, which at first (1841) referred to broken bricks or stones that formed the hard substratum of roads and foundations.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Adding the Japanese suffix -mi, meaning taste, highlights the specific taste detected by the tongue.
    — Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Both are identified with the same G7 suffix, and both include the Intel Iris Xe branding.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The dot-org suffix has the distinction of being one of original domains created in the mid-1980s.
    — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Megaly is a medical suffix denoting an abnormal or irregular enlargement of an organ or body part.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • The media's early and unquestioning acceptance of that suffix in effect amounted to game-over-early in the battle for public opinion.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2010
  • These last few years have brought about an overabundance of e-commerce suffixes, creating an information overload in the minds of consumers and businesses alike.
    — Somdutta Singh, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Our correspondent believes the original plat of the subdivision would reveal the truth, unless there's a city ordinance that changed the suffix.
    — Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2021
  • But, Lynne Murphy points out, the –ize suffix was original in British and American spelling, and survives in both.
    — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • As its numerical suffix suggests, the Baby II isn't the first time that Bugatti has created a miniature.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The word presidentessa, which adds the suffix -essa, used for the feminine of other types of nouns, appears occasionally, but is used for comedic effect—for instance, to speak about the wife of a president.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
  • A number of physical and health pursuits have been amended with the suffix—see looksmaxxing, proteinmaxxing and fibermaxxing—to denote the relentless pursuit of improvement in those respective areas.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Mar. 2026
  • First of all, the word extension is not necessarily correct; the suffix at the end of a domain name is technically referred to as the top-level domain, or TLD.
    — Michael Gargiulo, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The second, the Compound Remote Associate Task, asks for words that work as common prefixes or suffixes for unrelated terms.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019

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