How to Use unbearable in a Sentence

unbearable

adjective
Definition of unbearablenext
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  • We were in an almost unbearable state of excitement.
  • For me, 9/11 was the unbearable loss of thousands of lives.
    — Phil Klay, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In Qatar, the heat for nine months of the year is almost unbearable, Ghani said.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In fact, they’ve been used for decades to produce the unbearable shriek of a smoke alarm.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
  • There were times when the pain was unbearable, James said.
    — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Soon the pain was nearly unbearable and he was drenched in sweat.
    — Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • The quakes have made the plight of these Syrians unbearable.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The idea of that, even for a few seconds, is almost unbearable for us.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Even the Mahler looks on this unbearable pain with a kind of detachment.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • The furniture is broken, the walls are stained, the carpets are torn, and the smell is unbearable.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The crowd’s hysterics grew so unbearable that Sun Ra left the stage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • The debate of when life begins swirled through my head, and the veil of a child out of wedlock at the prime of my career seemed unbearable.
    — Essence, 27 June 2022
  • His aunt and uncle had held back yet more unbearable news.
    — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Once April rolls around, the heat in the desert will become unbearable until fall arrives.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Zach Stone, who lives in his car, says the heat inside the vehicle is unbearable.
    — Mary Beth Gahan, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • The pain can be so unbearable that many people end up getting right back on PPIs.
    — Sean O'Neal, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But there's no need to endure that unbearable dryness and itch alone.
    — Jessie Van Amburg, Health, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The mosquitoes out back can be unbearable in the summer.
    — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2022
  • And that would be unbearable for Eli, whose voice cracks and who pauses, briefly unable to speak, when asked what Mia has meant to him.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The harm to the victims is unbearable as they are inundated with fumes while the 1% party aloft.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The shame that would have fallen on me and my mother was unbearable even to contemplate.
    — Mary Gordon, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2022
  • My mind writhed thinking of the reports of unbearable Israeli casualties, the images of the captured and the dead, and the prospect of wider war.
    — Michael Oren, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
  • My great-aunt’s screams were so unbearable that others started pulling off her clothes, and with them skin.
    — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The experts warned that as heat builds up and becomes more unbearable as the day goes on, a 2 p.m. finish would be better than a 5 p.m. end time.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • The thought of my innocent mother having to spend her life in prison brings unbearable pain.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • But despite all that, life just keeps getting more unbearable — for the wealthy and the poor, for humans and for animals.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • As a result, the national team that went to the U.S. for the 1994 World Cup was under almost unbearable pressure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2022
  • For the survivors, the thought that the killings are entirely gratuitous is unbearable.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Still, not being able to be with Ellis is an unbearable thought for the family.
    — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2022
  • For Phillips, the daily pain of not knowing what happened to her daughter is unbearable.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 June 2022

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