How to Use suffer the consequences in a Sentence

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  • Miami sends bodies to the boards at both ends of the court, forcing its foes to do the same or suffer the consequences.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 19 May 2022
  • The key is to have a lump sum payment ready and be willing to suffer the consequences on your credit rating.
    Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
  • Texas Democrats must burn their old playbook or suffer the consequences.
    Sam Russek, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
  • People who only want to live in peace suffer the consequences.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Temporary cease-fires and new peace plans have come and gone for seven years now, with the Yemeni people left to suffer the consequences.
    Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Israel has threatened that if Hezbollah opens a new front, all of Lebanon will suffer the consequences.
    Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Still, that doesn’t mean Singapore won’t suffer the consequences of a warming world just as much.
    Heather Chen, CNN, 9 June 2023
  • And the Court of Arbitration [of Sport] ruled that 15 is too young to, basically, have to suffer the consequences of this.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Her characters feel the dread of making the choices that define one’s time on earth and suffer the consequences for taking — and missing — their chances.
    Christine Smallwood, Vulture, 6 May 2024
  • An increasing number of us live with diseased hearts and suffer the consequences.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Sarah Nabwire, a hairdresser from Uganda, worries her son, Haruna Sendi, will be one of those to suffer the consequences as the disruptions drag on.
    Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2022
  • If big states suffer problems of cohesion, small states suffer the consequences of weakness.
    Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The labor shortages threaten to eventually slow city services and stall projects, with all New Yorkers to suffer the consequences.
    Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 27 Sep. 2021
  • For people outside Britain, who won’t have to suffer the consequences of the austerity policies that Hunt is now intent on pursuing, this is the key question.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • To this date, religious minorities in Iraq continue to suffer the consequences of the atrocities and require a litany of assistance.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • In the meantime, people in the Central Valley’s rural communities continue to suffer the consequences as more wells sputter and dry up.
    Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Without a strong understanding of credit and credit management, students can fall into debt traps and suffer the consequences for years to come.
    Jose Rodriguez, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The show wisely deepens the story lines of its supporting characters, all of whom suffer the consequences of Barry’s violence—or enable it.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • Our community will suffer the consequences of that with their families.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • This legacy has affected thousands of women and their children, who continue to suffer the consequences.
    Annie Hylton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • And while the Fed’s policies are strengthening the dollar, poorer nations could quickly suffer the consequences, as higher rates push up the cost of financing debt or importing goods for countries that borrow in dollars.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
  • After a series of misfortunes in her personal life, she is involved in an accident and ends up in a coma, before waking up in a world where she is forced to suffer the consequences of her controversial work.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Students and teachers, meanwhile, suffer the consequences of overzealous filtering.
    Tara García Mathewson, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The challenge for humanity is painfully clear: improve our agricultural practices, or suffer the consequences.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, Boeing’s customers continue to suffer the consequences.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • As politicians worry over how their policy decisions affect their re-election chances, the private sector can step up and do something about immigration policy–or also suffer the consequences.
    Semyon Dukach, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Although the violence has stopped and people worldwide have moved on to the next trending international crisis, Israelis, Palestinians, and their families in the diaspora continue to suffer the consequences of living in a constant state of war.
    Allison Norlian, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Since big companies rarely plead guilty or suffer the consequences of a criminal conviction, prosecutors rely on other forms of punishment and tools to improve future compliance.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
  • But in our hyperreal time, no one really seemed to care, least of all American citizens who didn’t directly suffer the consequences of their nation’s imperial adventures.
    Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Reducing consumption today reduces the number of people elsewhere who will suffer the consequences tomorrow and can prevent much of the instability that would otherwise result.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 6 June 2023

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