sufferable

Example Sentences

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Religion helps make suffering sufferable, but so does science.

From New York Times

The parents argued about which city’s weather was less sufferable, D.C.’s or Haifa’s.

From The New Yorker

It's about the wish and murmur of lives lived centuries ago — what they tell us and how we exalt them, long for them, look to them to make our existence sufferable and better still, interesting.

From Los Angeles Times

He may not have a woman’s gentleness, but he has a firmness and a quietness of action which are seldom seen at other times, and which make a sick room seem more calm and sufferable.

From Project Gutenberg

And, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

From Project Gutenberg