long-suffering

How To Use long-suffering In A Sentence

• But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.
• Other characters included two long-suffering frogs called Ernie and Sylve, an heroic tortoise called Lewis Collins and a little white shell called Jim Morrison.
• Magda, his long-suffering wife, was the only person who knew his secret, and she is now dead.
• His long-suffering wife, Nora, faces an everyday struggle to find money for food and other essentials.
• No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
• Just as a crusty maiden aunt confined to a retirement home might continue to lecture her long-suffering relatives by letter, she will still be playing the duenna to an errant world, in writing.
• But it's hardly a name that will have long-suffering fans excited. The Sun
• The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
• No opportunity for zaniness is knowingly passed up, to the exasperation of the long-suffering staff.
• No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS