How to Use unbearable in a Sentence

unbearable

adjective
  • We were in an almost unbearable state of excitement.
  • Those who knew him said the past few days have been unbearable.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
  • There will be times when the weight of your past feels unbearable.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That what was done to us was not just unbearable, but wrong.
    — Jennifer W. Tsai, STAT, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Then the pain spread -- to unbearable headaches and ear pain.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Some are too rough and have made my skin more than unbearable at times.
    — Essence, 2 July 2024
  • The screams from it were unbearable.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Many will report the first episode of the show to be unbearable.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The racket of a packed house and an open kitchen was unbearable.
    — Chris Berdik, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
  • But the pain can be downright unbearable when oil hits the skids.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • Soon the pain was nearly unbearable and he was drenched in sweat.
    — Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • The weight of that kind of guilt struck me as an unbearable one to carry.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The tune is almost as unbearable as the voice and whistling teeth.
    — Jake Ciely, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Sama has lost almost all of her hair due to the unbearable stress of the war.
    — Daniele Hamamdjian, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The cramps were unbearable, weighing me down like an iron fist.
    — Calle Hack, Good Housekeeping, 27 Apr. 2018
  • This idea was unbearable, but watching her gasp for air was worse.
    — Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Raveau said the state of the regime has made Iran unbearable to live in.
    — Julia Avant, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And breaking up over and over is unbearable.
    — Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The dry spring was bad; the dry summer, worse; the dry fall, unbearable.
    — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, they’ve been used for decades to produce the unbearable shriek of a smoke alarm.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Even when your days feel unbearable, the evening will come, and the flowers will bloom in the dark.
    — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 11 June 2018
  • But what was unbearable was the feeling of the helmet on his head.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2022
  • In the summer, the heat is unbearable.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Not just because the grief was unbearable.
    — Nitin Murali, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The thought of not being able to see his children grow up was unbearable.
    — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The idea of that, even for a few seconds, is almost unbearable for us.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The idea that that our baby didn’t even get to draw breath was almost unbearable.
    — Kristan Higgins, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2021
  • Still, the thought of lying in bed in her presence was unbearable.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The film drags on and on, with unbearable special effects at times.
    — Ashley Zlatopolsky, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2017
  • The news out of Ukraine, day after day, was unbearable enough.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024

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