suffer

Example Sentences

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Operation Midland eventually cost the Metropolitan Police some £2.5m, with Beech himself pocketing £20,000 in public money as compensation for injuries he never suffered but claimed were inflicted during the alleged abuse.

From BBC

The civil trial in California state court focuses on allegations that a 20-year-old woman, identified as Kaley G.M., suffered severe mental harm because she became addicted to social media as a child.

From Barron's

Of someone who’d suffered loss that had made him angry and alone.

From Literature

The ultimate irony underlying “The Warhead” is that the desire to reduce suffering sometimes produces the opposite result.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sometimes it’s physical pain, like the dislocated right shoulder she suffered a month ago and requires her to snowboard with a tight brace.

From Los Angeles Times