How to Use insufferable in a Sentence

insufferable

adjective
  • I can't take any more of her insufferable arrogance.
  • These elites may be insufferable at times, but no one deserves this.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 May 2022
  • And, of course, to flood you with insufferable Dad-jokes all along the way.
    — Zenebou Sylla and Marianne Garvey, CNN, 18 June 2024
  • The trip has been insufferable for the refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • To me, at the risk of sounding insufferable, there’s a central theme of grief in the movie.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • When you do get picked up, you may get carted around town for an insufferable tour of the five boroughs.
    — Gian Carlo Pedulla, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Those disasters have not just been fires and the insufferable heat.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • Mari continues to be insufferable as Ben walks her through how to fix her leg.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In lesser hands, such a hero could be an insufferable scold, or alienating chaos agent.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • Ethan is insufferable, and not in a fun way like Undine Spragg.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • My pride in her love for these myths was aspirational, no doubt insufferable.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
  • Every person is insufferable in their own unique way.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • But what if the insufferable heat had lasted months— or millennia?
    — Chris Mays, Scientific American, 23 June 2022
  • As a result, people never get relief from insufferable heat and more of them are at risk of dying.
    — Gary Yohe, Scientific American, 13 May 2021
  • In the other, her insufferable, inept brother takes the crown.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • Katie views Rachel as a freeloader, while Rachel finds Katie bossy and insufferable.
    — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The Longing opens with a scene of perfect and near-insufferable slowness.
    — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The idea of movement for the sake of it is really insufferable in cinema.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Veruca Salt was an insufferable brat, but wasn’t dropping her into a furnace a bit much?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2021
  • Both of them have the capacity to be a little wacky and insufferable, but that seemed to be part of what drew and kept them together.
    — Lauren Hoffman, Cosmopolitan, 1 Dec. 2014
  • Then coughing, sniffling and full-on congestion, with or without fever, for a few insufferable days.
    — Mary J. Scourboutakos, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2025
  • There is no dumber tradition that's come with this insufferable age of social media than spoiling draft picks.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • And while to some that comes off as insufferable, unattainable, and just plain off-putting, to me Martha is the ultimate enabler.
    — Hanna Howard, Teen Vogue, 13 July 2017
  • But a nice Payton, no longer strictly the antihero, may well prove insufferable.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The numbers begin to rise late in winter, peak in the spring and dip as the Southwest heat becomes insufferable.
    — Calvin Woodward and Hope Yen, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • As insufferable as Patriots nation has been over the past two decades, those fans seem to have been handling this pretty well.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The Rock could show up any week now to inflict further punishment on Rhodes and make his life insufferable.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Waldorf, whose townhouse was right next to hers, couldn't bear seeing the home of his insufferable status-usurping aunt day after day.
    — Edward Sorel, Town & Country, 20 Dec. 2012
  • Bill Ackman, an insufferable hedge fund person, is not the person who should be making peace here but that's just my opinion.
    — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 6 June 2025
  • The Charles part of that is obvious — he was turned into quite the insufferable character.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 June 2021

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