Suffer

//ˈsʌfɚ//

"Suffer" in a Sentence (23 examples)

Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.

It is a shameful fact that, while there are lands where people suffer from hunger, within Japan there are many households and restaurants where much food is thrown away.

It is man's lot to suffer.

This city will suffer from an acute water shortage unless it rains soon.

People who regularly work in the open air do not suffer from sleeplessness.

All humanity will suffer if a nuclear war breaks out.

Whenever I go abroad, I suffer from jet lag and diarrhea.

We all suffer from it to some degree.

The house did not suffer much damage because the fire was quickly put out.

I suffer from a stomach ache.

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Many artists suffer before becoming famous.

At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash.

If you keep partying like this, your school-work will suffer.

Our correspondent found that timekeeping had suffered following the substitution of Class 5 4-6-0s on these workings.

I've been suffering your insults for years.

We hope you never have to suffer the same pain.

If you may pleaſe to thinke I loue the King, / And through him, what’s neereſt to him, which is / Your gracious ſelfe; embrace but my direction, / If your more ponderous and ſetled proiect may ſuffer alteration.

Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue.

But Iesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not to come vnto me: for of such is þe kingdome of heauen.

These constitute the important inflectional changes that have taken place in Modern English. There are other grammatical changes, mostly syntactical in their nature, into which the limits of this work do not suffer us to enter.

"Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.

[…] it shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to be parked […] beyond the period of time established by the duration of the parking meter […]

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