How to Use unrelieved in a Sentence

unrelieved

adjective
  • Acts of unbroken earnestness, like those of unrelieved wickedness, are dull to watch and boring to talk about.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Omar said his tenure at KTU has been an unrelieved nightmare.
    — Ken Silverstein, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The account of the unrelieved tragedy of her life went far beyond anything which anyone had ever described to me in spoken words.
    — Charles McGrath, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • In yoga, the hips are often referred to as storehouses for tension and unrelieved emotions.
    — Chloe Kernaghan, Time, 29 May 2018
  • His own habitual habit is black pants and turtleneck, quite unrelieved by color or ornament.
    — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 11 June 2021
  • Yet the feelings evoked by these often grim stories affect us differently than does the unrelieved gloom spread over Jude.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
  • If you’re constipated and can’t poop, pressure from the unrelieved waste could be pressing on those nerves, causing those sore testicles.
    — Elizabeth Millard, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Never guilty of unrelieved kindness toward his characters, Trevor seems overtly punitive in some of these stories.
    — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 11 May 2018
  • Yet Clarke recalls this period as one of unrelieved disability.
    — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2020
  • This might threaten unrelieved angst weighing down a 90-minute drama, or, maybe worse, a didactic, finger-wagging life lesson lecture.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Rather than wrestle her subject into more comfortable territory, Khakpour forces her reader to deal with unrelieved uncertainty.
    — Lidija Haas, The New Yorker, 17 June 2014
  • You’re confronted with a world of almost unrelieved cowardice, cynicism, myopia, narcissism, and ineptitude, where the overriding motive is the pursuit of power for its own sake.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 18 May 2022
  • As material for art, emergency medicine, like the climate crisis, would seem, given its tendency toward unrelieved crescendo, both appealing and treacherous.
    — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • He’s played by Grégoire Colin, one of the great modern French actors, whose onscreen persona combines unrelieved woundedness with barely repressed violence.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • In the medical domain, autistic people are more likely to experience unrelieved suffering from intestinal distress, epilepsy, and other conditions.
    — John Elder Robison, STAT, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Eligible patients must be diagnosed with an incurable disease or a condition that causes intolerable, unrelieved suffering.
    — Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • That voice is both dramatic and poetic, informational and expressive, collecting shards of observations and reminiscences, pushing unrelieved tensions to the fore and turning his story into a crisis of consciousness.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2019

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