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Example sentences for "suffered from"

  • Buquet said, that I suffered from "du retard dans la perception.

  • But at the 106 we suffered from no such unreasoning severity.

  • Blanchard, suffered from a badly suppurating wound in the thigh, and was taken away for an operation to the Civil Hospital, where he died a few days after.

  • Strange to say, he suffered from constipation, and took daily a compound rhubarb pill.

  • He suffered from small-pox; on waking up in the night with a fever, he always cried for a piece of mortar.

  • Its extraction was followed by a gush of urine, and for several days the man suffered from incontinence of urine and feces.

  • He suffered from claustrophobia: woe to whomsoever tried to lock him up in a carriage or a room!

  • During the last years of his life he suffered from noise as from a brutal physical touch.

  • A Londoner would take these inconveniences as a matter of course and be insensible to them, but to me they were so unpleasant that I suffered from nostalgia of the country all the time.

  • He suffered from asthma, and could only sleep with the windows of his bedroom wide open, and a bright wood fire burning in the chimney.

  • In addition to his blindness he suffered from gout, to which it was partly attributable, and, his strength gradually failing, but with mind unimpaired and serene, he d.

  • From his birth he suffered from a malformation of the feet, causing a slight lameness, which was a cause of lifelong misery to him, aggravated by the knowledge that with proper care it might have been cured.

  • He suffered from deafness, and in his latter years from failure of sight.

  • During his later years he suffered from paralysis of one side, which, though it left his mind unaffected, impaired his powers of work.

  • Even if he has, since his discharge, suffered from rheumatism, he does not claim that this was incurred in the Army.

  • Upon his application for pension under the general law, fourteen years thereafter, he admitted that he suffered from hydrocele as early as 1856, but claimed that an operation then performed for the same had given him permanent relief.

  • It was more weakness than anything else that I suffered from.

  • I could retain no food, not even water, and I was constipated for thirteen days, and I suffered from jaundice.

  • During confinement I had a very hard time, and was a long time in recovering, and have always, since my first child, suffered from falling of the womb, although I had a doctor and midwife in the house three weeks.

  • For years I suffered from what I feel was the want of proper nursing and nourishment.

  • What words the Armenian used to enable me to understand what was wrong I do not remember, but I found out eventually that the patient wanted a tonic, for all he suffered from was an inability to manage his many wives.

  • His Highness then described to me the symptoms that he suffered from, and showed me where the pain seized him.

  • I found that the patient was suffering from a disease that was, perhaps, less interesting than that His Highness suffered from: he had cancer of the stomach.

  • After salutations, tea, and cigarettes, His Highness told me the story of a severe illness he suffered from when he was a youth.

  • I was mad from the time I was told of my birth," he wrote, and until madness supervened he suffered from a "wounded imagination.

  • He suffered from a cancerous trouble of the stomach.

  • In common with several members of the impressionistic group to which he belonged, he suffered from hunger, neglect, obloquy; but when prosperity did at last appear he did not succumb to the most dangerous enemy that besets the artist.

  • And as he sat reading this note over and over, he suffered from a sense of nausea.

  • Soames, who had no more real affection for her than she had for him, suffered from a kind of English grievance in that she had never dropped even the thinnest veil of sentiment over their partnership.

  • He looked as if he suffered from silence.

  • In 1798 he suffered from a severe attack of typhus fever, which at the time was epidemic in Vienna, and some of his biographers report his death in this year as a consequence of it.

  • It was not long before he gave up the practice of medicine entirely, led to the step by the sad death of a friend, who, while under his care, suffered from perforation of the intestines, followed by peritonitis.

  • While serving this sentence he was admitted to the State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he suffered from an acute maniacal attack with persecutory delusions.

  • In other words, there was no doubt that the patient malingered, but there was likewise no doubt that he suffered from a psychosis.

  • There can be no doubt that this man malingered mental symptoms, neither need there be the slightest doubt about his having suffered from an actual mental disorder.

  • For some time I suffered from a delusion, imagining that a shade, the restless soul, the invisible ghost of a dog followed me wherever I went.

  • The Tibetans said that it suffered from a throat complaint called gakpa, which is very common in the country.

  • Here old Guffaru was reported sick; he suffered from colic, and was well nursed.

  • At the very time of thinking so ill of his friend, he suffered from hallucination on another subject.

  • The flat country depressed him and he suffered from homesickness to such a degree that when he returned to Stockholm at Christmas and saw again the smiling contours of the coast of Brunsvik, he was moved to the point of sentimentality.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffered 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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