sufferance
Example Sentences
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Perhaps for some—the intrepid and legendary explorers and today's possessed polar workers — the inexplicable pull of the pole stems from the sufferance of a magnetic drive.
From Salon • May 29, 2023
—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
It is a story about who gets to go where, who gets to exist safely in public, and who is only there on sufferance.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2021
Both hobby and commercial pilots have access to their technology only at the sufferance of the government and the public: It’s a privilege that can and will be taken away if the bad behavior continues.
From Slate • Jan. 3, 2018
What was worse, Lola had made it clear that she too would be acting on sufferance.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
