SUFFER in a Sentence

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For SUFFER, below is one of 420 sentences:
With St. Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners; but I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUFFER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suffer
 v.  be set at a disadvantage
 v.  undergo as of injuries and illnesses
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Yes, indeed, and there's another class who can't ask, and who suffer in silence.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
2  My poor innocent spine has to suffer for my father's youthful amusements.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
3  You shall not suffer for my sake.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
4  You are asleep, Penelope: the gods who live at ease will not suffer you to weep and be so sad.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
5  There I saw Helen, for whose sake so many, both Argives and Trojans, were in heaven's wisdom doomed to suffer.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
6  I will suffer no competitor near the throne; I shall exact an undivided homage: his devotions shall not be shared between me and the shape he sees in his mirror.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach, nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  Read on: only make haste, for I suffer.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  I watch your career with interest, because I consider you a specimen of a diligent, orderly, energetic woman: not because I deeply compassionate what you have gone through, or what you still suffer.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  With St. Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners; but I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under rather a stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
14  The discussion of Mr. Collins's offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusions of her mother.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  But in matters of greater weight, I may suffer from want of money.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  A lot of students suffer from exam nerves.
17  His two main rivals suffer the disadvantage of having been long-term political exiles.
18  The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
19  Alcoholics often suffer from periods of oblivion.
20  Deliberately making people suffer is immoral.
21  At least he died suddenly and didn't suffer.
22  An idle soul shall suffer hunger.
23  Badly fed children suffer a lot of minor illnesses.
24  Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency in their diet.
25  I'll make you suffer for this insolence.
26  Many children suffer racial abuse at school.
27  All children will tend to suffer from separation from their parents and siblings.
28  It makes my heart ache to see her suffer.
29  Great souls suffer in silence.
30  It is a horrible thing to see one person make another suffer.