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
• The heat is unendurable, the work exhausting and deadly.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Long-lasting peace is unendurable to human beings, and tidal waves of disturbance have to be created in this state of peace...
  — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2013
• Not because the parallels between that fiction and her fact would be unendurable.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Cassie’s refusal to forget is more threatening: a constant, unendurable rebuke to those around her.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• 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
• At that moment, the thought of renouncing the consolation of getting tipsy seemed unendurable.
  — Susan Gubar, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• President Bush was irrelevant to the indictment but faced an unendurable weekend of hostile press.
  — C. Boyden Gray, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Their ability to endure the seemingly unendurable is simply amazing.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2018
• Alzheimer’s devastates not only its patients — 6.2 million in the U.S. alone — but imposes an unendurable emotional and financial burden on their households.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• 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
• The book sounds, in summary, terrible: pretentious, self-serious, unendurable.
  — Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024