- present participle of suffer.
suffering
Example Sentences
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“I am suffering from severe sleep deprivation as a result of being woken up repeatedly throughout the night, every night by this hot air,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
The suffering from this faulty reasoning has already begun, as Venezuela, another TPS country, reels from a devastating earthquake the same day as the court’s opinion.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026
"We thank God because... we're alive, but there are people right now suffering with their relatives buried, with their relatives crushed and they can't get them out."
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
In my favor: though not a Buddhist, I am intellectually, if not spiritually, drawn to Buddhism’s doctrines of suffering, impermanence and nonattachment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
Finally, after the suffering became intolerable, he relented, was examined, and was told that he was suffering from orchitis, an inflammation of the testicle.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing suffering
Because of Winn-Dixie
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