sufferable

Example Sentences

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“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

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

At 160 minutes and on a second encounter, “Bardo” is — how to put this? — sufferable.

From Los Angeles Times

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