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

Your Madame must be insufferable indeed, seeing that her knowledge of these subjects and men did not make her sufferable to you.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir