sufferings
- plural of suffering.
Example Sentences
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Researchers have increasingly linked such sufferings to heavy social media use among adolescents.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
The poet finds no comfort in his grief because, in Hardy’s view, the universe is indifferent to our sufferings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Coon: It’s meaningful that Mike set this season in Thailand, in a Buddhist country, because, of course, if you look at the tenets of Buddhism, one of the great sufferings is comparing mind.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025
Throughout the trip, he was deeply moved by the sufferings he witnessed in Gaza and focused on providing aid to the widowed and elderly, he added.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
I feel in my soul only a weariness at the continual braying of their vanity, their outrage at small sufferings when greater are to hand.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
