How to Use suffering in a Sentence

suffering

noun

• They hope these new drugs will help to bring an end to the suffering of arthritis patients.
• His lawsuit seeks damages for pain and suffering.
• The city endured some of the worst suffering of the war.
  — Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2022
• The infantry bear the brunt of the fighting—and the suffering.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
• The two women described their suffering at the time and in the years since.
  — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2023
• And so the pain and suffering is going to get a lot worse.
  — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2022
• There was a space in his soul for the suffering of people.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
• Blues songs speak of the joy and suffering of being alive.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 31 July 2022
• Into the suffering, the bloodshed, and the agony of civilians there.
  — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Adding to Smith’s suffering was the fact that her body refused to give up the fetus.
  — Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 July 2022
• But tonight the squirrel is the soloist in the orchestra of suffering.
  — Ellen Bass, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
• The tyranny of the abstract leads to acute and frenzied suffering.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• The turmoil, pain and suffering necessary to right the ship is at hand.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• They were meant to stress that the horror of Auschwitz-Birkenau lies in the suffering of people held and killed there.
  — Czarek Sokolowski The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
• It’s been said that pain is inevitable, but that suffering is a choice.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• The city of Santa Cruz acknowledges the suffering of the peoples of the Middle East.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• These accounts of children’s deaths just scrape the surface of the suffering that’s out there.
  — Frank H. McCourt Jr., Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• The procedure got rid of the pain and suffering because it got rid of the patients.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• Experts’ best bet was to sedate the whale to ease its suffering.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• In Gaza City, there are more and more severe suffering.
  — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2023
• The total effect of the suffering is just starting to take hold.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• So done with the fetishization of female pain and suffering.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 4 Oct. 2022
• Being able to feel the pain and suffering of a client is quite another.
  — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• How to make meaning of one’s life, of life itself and the evanescence of memories, in the midst of pain and suffering?
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
• Michael Fanone blamed him for his career loss, 18 months of suffering.
  — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• The fasting is aimed at bringing the faithful closer to God and reminding them of the suffering of the poor.
  — Niniek Karmini, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
• Indeed, Rosalind may be a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been pain and suffering in her life.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• But why, when we’re given the option to suffer or not, do so many of us choose suffering?
  — Dr. Sharon Malone, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
• Officers located a 17-year-old male suffering from a gunshot wound to his arm.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2025
• Hundreds of protesters have been arrested, of whom more than 300 allege suffering beatings, torture and other ill-treatment at the hands of law enforcement, according to Amnesty International.
  — Elizabeth McBride, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025