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.
  — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Regardless of whether their long-suffering Maple Leafs would prevail against the Panthers, this would be a memorable day for them.
  — Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 18 May 2025
• When asked where Optimus was, the staffer explained in long-suffering tones that the robots only appeared for special occasions.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 22 Apr. 2026