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

Mr. H. Potts is tolerable, Deady is sufferable, Gubbins is bearable, and Clutterbuck is endurable, but Ho—— Belvil.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles