How to Use unrelenting in a Sentence

unrelenting

adjective
  • The film is unrelenting from the first moments to the last.
    Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The deaths during the delta surge have been unrelenting in hotspots in the South.
    Wilson Ring, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • There are times when the pain is unrelenting for four or five days straight.
    Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early 2020.
    Imtiaz Rangwala, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
  • Since most of the third-country refugees are in their 20s, they have been pushed to the back of lines — and kept there as the flood of Ukrainians has been unrelenting.
    Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
  • In the summer, the desert surrounding the Salton Sea in California seems to glow from the glare of the unrelenting sun.
    Emma Grillo Kitra Cahana, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Kenya and Ethiopia are also victims of the unrelenting two-year drought, which has pushed 21 million people in the Horn of Africa to the brink.
    Declan Walsh Andrea Bruce, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • As the boys began to fall behind the clock’s unrelenting pace, Han only seemed to get stronger.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • And even though the movie’s sad and heavy, there’s an energy that’s unrelenting.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 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
  • Oh, and don’t forget that the American West is already in the grips of an unrelenting mega-drought.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Dec. 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
  • Clues about how to cure unrelenting pain may lie within the genes of a few unlucky people.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2022
  • This tiredness is unrelenting and does not go away with rest.
    Rosie McCall, Health, 8 June 2024
  • Sure, trying to do it all could be unrelenting at times; but everyone was in the rat race right along with her.
    Trey Williams, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • If one or two of those pickups has the unrelenting motor of Ha-Seong Kim, even better.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • His unrelenting heart and soul is deeply embedded in this role and in this story.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The fires roared across the West amid an unrelenting stretch of intense heat that's expected to continue through the week.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • But the people who run the sites say their rise is a response to the unrelenting drug violence that has stilled the voice of some mainstream media.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2022
  • But the Rays’ roster churn is so unrelenting that the team has ranked in the bottom four in attendance every year since 2010.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • Still, the Taliban were adding checkpoints to clog nearly every artery to the airport, and the crowds at every gate were unrelenting.
    Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
  • After all, the actor more than proved her grit in Swarm, playing an R&B singer’s unrelenting, crazed fan.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Then there’s the pained diplomat and his unrelenting pursuit of a serial killer in the miniseries The Serpent.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
  • At least 18 people have died in the unrelenting wave of storms that have rolled across the state since late December, state officials say.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Even for the Pacific Northwest, a region known for gloom and drizzle, the rain has been unrelenting.
    NBC News, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The water is instead staying in Lake Mead, near Las Vegas, to help slow the unrelenting decline of the largest reservoir in the country.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Then, suddenly, the house collapsed, tossing them all into the muddy, unrelenting water.
    Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Wherever humans congregate, rats amass – efficient and unrelenting – in colonies.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024

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