"suffer disappointment" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase any time you want to express that someone has experienced disappointment. For example: "The students had to suffer disappointment when their teacher canceled the field trip."
Adding to the frustration, the girls would laboriously log on only to suffer disappointment if they had no e-mail.
Explosions from a dam-building site rock the countryside and contribute to the sense of unease, as do all the trapped things: birds in cages, an indentured artist, women who've come to this lonely corner of France only to suffer disappointment.
Tom Daley, who provided one of the most joyous moments of the games when he tumbled back into the pool with his diving partner Dan Goodfellow as they realised they were heading for a medal only to suffer disappointment when he failed to make the solo finals, said: "I would have liked two medals, but I'm happy with one".
But if you can't suffer disappointment, you'd better get out of management.
He travelled to the 2000 Olympics as Ben Ainslie's training partner, but went on to suffer disappointment at the 2004 Games when he came fourth.
Some places do not allow dogs at all, so don't suffer disappointment by driving all the way there only to have to turn around again.
The characters in them suffer disappointments and decrepitude, but neither they nor the stories lack spirit.
But, unlike Capote, she is a loyal, kind friend.All the families struggle to succeed; all suffer disappointments.
If a newly constituted Court establishes an abiding commitment to judicial restraint, the right as well as the left is likely to suffer disappointments.
They can't seem to bear the inevitability that their children will suffer disappointments and will have to reckon with inadequacies.
As the man who gets the girl, the land, the business and the legacy while all those around him suffer disappointments, Mr. O'Donnell, an inexperienced stage actor, nonetheless plays naïveté, ambivalence and self-consciousness with the conviction of a performer who can't be feeling those things himself.
