How to Use unendurable in a Sentence

unendurable

adjective
  • The heat was nearly unendurable, but that wasn’t the problem so much as the point.
    — Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
  • To feel the net of the law closing in on him slowly—the stress must have been absolutely unendurable.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
  • Not because the parallels between that fiction and her fact would be unendurable.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Sometimes — as in Wafa’s case — waiting feels unendurable, and migrants buck against the helpless hours, months, and years.
    — Caitlin Dwyer, Longreads, 29 May 2021
  • The examples used are plucked out of sequence from a lifetime of pitting his body against the seemingly unendurable.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Things grew worse that Tuesday night, and unendurable weather drove us into the plane at daybreak on Wednesday.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • Widows are supporting families gutted by losses that once seemed unendurable, and that the world now treats as routine.
    — Hwaida Saad, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Hélène finds the awkward response of her social circle unendurable; people mean well, but are terrified of saying the wrong thing.
    — Catherine Bray, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Her characters might suffer from a great many maladies but none more soul-draining than aesthetic poverty, none more unendurable than grayscale lives.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
  • His cotton manuscript gloves left no one in any doubt that Spitalfields was unendurable to anyone of refinement.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
  • At that moment, the thought of renouncing the consolation of getting tipsy seemed unendurable.
    — Susan Gubar, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Their ability to endure the seemingly unendurable is simply amazing.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2018
  • President Bush was irrelevant to the indictment but faced an unendurable weekend of hostile press.
    — C. Boyden Gray, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
  • When all of these ameliorations were completed, and the unendurable pain was relieved, the German broke into shamelessly grateful sobs.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • An unnamed actor played by Nicolas Duvauchelle, this one has it all—narcissism, fatuousness, self-doubt and a gift for talking about himself at unendurable length.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Medicinal chemists have the demanding job of examining these interactions to find those involved in disease, and then to find drugs that treat the disease without causing unendurable side effects.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • And in keeping with the life-or-death importance given to most things in a 13-year-old’s world, the thought of having to miss the 4*Town concert for these dreamy-eyed superfans is unendurable.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And yet, these statements fail to convey any indication that the administration understands this wave of violence will not stop until the costs of Iran’s campaign of aggression become unendurable.
    — The Editors, National Review, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Somehow the unpredictable excitement, and sometimes almost unendurable boredom, of the Velvet Underground eludes Haynes—but perhaps that should not surprise us.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Conversations attempted in line for the Berghain toilets have a success rate of about 25 percent, some of which must be attributed to one party’s desire to join the other in their stall, to more quickly put an end to the unendurable wait.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Only then will Turkey be able to rebuild, not just in the physical sense but in the way someone rebuilds mental and emotional capacities after a long and increasingly unendurable incarceration.
    — Christopher De Bellaigue, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023

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