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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

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

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

To be cheated, to be swindled, to be sworn at, cursed, even to be beaten was sufferable to a degree, but to be laughed at—zu Pfeiffer’s haughty soul exploded like a bomb at an impact.

From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles