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Example sentences for "suffer from"

  • It was formerly thought that infants and very young children were not often the subjects of typhoid fever, but, so far is this opinion from being correct, it is now known that they are especially liable to suffer from it.

  • It has been observed during epidemics that those who exhibit an excessive fear of the contagion are much more likely to suffer from it than the cheerful and courageous.

  • Robust young Europeans lately arrived in a warm country are, it is said, peculiarly liable to suffer from it.

  • Other circumstances contributed to discourage Bastiat: "I suffer from my poverty," he tells Mr Cobden.

  • I suffer from my feet," repeated the butler, measuring out the drops.

  • I, too," he proceeded, "suffer from my stomach.

  • Pines and firs, five to six years old, have been known to suffer from a disease in which there is a shedding of the leaves, the more tender herbage being at the same time affected.

  • Moreover, they are careful to keep the bow-string taut and to twang it occasionally, for this will cause the wounded man to suffer from tension of the nerves and spasms of tetanus.

  • The age of five months is the period of life at or about which syphilitic infants are most liable to suffer from iritis.

  • Both of these assertions were denied by Tripier and Toussaint, who insist upon Heitzmann's having selected animals which have a peculiar disposition to suffer from rachitis.

  • The younger the infant, the less able is it to digest any other food than breast-milk, and the more liable is it therefore to suffer from diarrhoea if bottle-fed.

  • This curious fright I suffer from is very strange.

  • This is the reason why I hold it to be my duty to remain there until I feel sure the institution would not suffer from my departure.

  • I suffer from a shameful weakness: I am mortally afraid of mice.

  • In spite of the greatest care and moderation, I suffer from dyspepsia.

  • Cucumbers== on ridges generally do well without water, but they must not be allowed to suffer from drought.

  • Never allow the seedlings to suffer from want of water, or to become a prey to aphis.

  • We had hardly been a week in Paris when my husband began to suffer from nervousness.

  • Unless he lives in a great capital the man devoted to that life is more than other men liable to suffer from isolation, to feel utterly alone beneath the deafness of space and the silence of the stars.

  • Those of a nervous temperament are likely to suffer from diarrhea.

  • It is particularly those who are worried and run down from overwork and excitement who are likely to suffer from it, but it occurs typically in people who, faute de mieux, worry about themselves.

  • Now we know how valuable a food product it is, especially for those inclined to suffer from constipation, or who are under weight.

  • Dyspeptic and neurotic people are often liable [to suffer from them].

  • There is almost always a history of the patient having been bitten or licked by an animal supposed to suffer from rabies.

  • Those who have thus acquired the disease may transmit it to their offspring, who are then said to suffer from inherited syphilis.

  • As the result of this affection the children, usually of poor parents, suffer from gastro-intestinal disorders of various kinds, and develop symptoms of malnutrition, affecting especially bone tissue.

  • Its favourite victims are cooks, though laundresses, seamstresses, and even clerks in stores, suffer from it much more than those engaged in other occupations.

  • It has often been noted that people who live in the midst of serious emotional strain are most likely to suffer from manifestations of syphilis in their nervous system.

  • The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston gave what is called the first complete performance of Handel's "Messiah" in America.

  • The actual creators don't suffer from it.

  • He sounds as though he were going to suffer from what is called the artistic temperament," observed the Parson.

  • I'm sure you didn't suffer from it," declared Boase.

  • He had loved Blanche as unselfishly as only a woman or a boy can love, and now he began to suffer from it in a manner he had not at the time.

  • In both England and America we suffer from a certain morbid ethical daintiness.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffer from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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