sufferable

Example Sentences

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All of this in May, normally a sufferable month in Miami compared with the three or four that follow.

From New York Times • May 21, 2024

“Jefferson said we’re disposed to suffer evils while evils are sufferable, so this is going to take extra effort,” Burns says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023

There's actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2023

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

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

This is that question which all men have ceased to think sufferable.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various