How to Use unrelenting in a Sentence

unrelenting

adjective
  • There are times when the pain is unrelenting for four or five days straight.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The film’s sheer, unrelenting squalor can wear you down, too.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2025
  • The bills are as unrelenting as a shark that smells blood in the water.
    — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 16 Dec. 2020
  • This tiredness is unrelenting and does not go away with rest.
    — Rosie McCall, Health, 8 June 2024
  • She was known for her fierce and unrelenting spirit, her drive to be fair and just, and her love for life.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 10 July 2019
  • The pressure to bait and pull pots or lines and handle nets can be unrelenting.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2021
  • Over the past year, his parents led an unrelenting campaign to bring their son home.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Over the past two years, his parents led an unrelenting campaign to bring their son home.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The deaths during the delta surge have been unrelenting in hotspots in the South.
    — Wilson Ring, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The summer has brought just a few sprinkles and unrelenting blue skies.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2020
  • More than a year later, Rollins said, the grief is unrelenting.
    — Liz Szabo, USA TODAY, 30 May 2021
  • At full throttle, the car belies its size and weight, pulling through each gear on an unrelenting wave of torque.
    — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 7 July 2020
  • And even though the movie’s sad and heavy, there’s an energy that’s unrelenting.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Clues about how to cure unrelenting pain may lie within the genes of a few unlucky people.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2022
  • His unrelenting heart and soul is deeply embedded in this role and in this story.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That had to inspire a few nerves for the young coach; hockey parents can be unrelenting.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Ukraine has vowed not to be cowed by the aerial assault, but the attacks have been unrelenting.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • And the youth have become the regime’s most unrelenting critics.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 16 June 2019
  • Nothing could have prepared her for the unrelenting pain.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 14 June 2026
  • For me, when the summer sun is truly unrelenting, only a sweet lassi can fight the heat.
    — Tania Banerjee, Bon Appétit, 28 July 2021
  • Many view the protests as a positive omen in a time of unrelenting bleakness in Gaza.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Her fever remains high and unrelenting.
    — Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
  • As the boys began to fall behind the clock’s unrelenting pace, Han only seemed to get stronger.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2022
  • That unrelenting drive of this young woman who’s at the center of this movie just feels like a new kind of shade on that idea of a final girl.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2023
  • So, is there any truth to the rumors that Meghan is an unrelenting diva who drives people to quit their jobs and flee?
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 13 Jan. 2019
  • Breaks denied, not from cruelty alone, but from the unrelenting clock of the harvest.
    — Dean Florez, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Though the iced drink is a welcome antidote to the unrelenting sun, both the drink and the boba were lacking.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Because this four-piece’s sludge-metal and post-hardcore is unrelenting, full of fierce drumming and gnarled riffs.
    — Harry Thorfinn-George, Pitchfork, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Despite the tireless work of the doctors and nurses who cared for her, the virus waged an unrelenting assault.
    — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Callahan was also losing weight at a rapid pace, and his naked body was being covered with salt sores from the unrelenting ocean.
    — Mark Gray, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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