Examples of unbearable in a Sentence
We were in an almost unbearable state of excitement.
this heat is unbearable—when are we going to get air-conditioning?
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Food inflation in Russia is around 25%, interest rates on loans is a usurious 25%, and lending has come to a near complete halt, making ordinary life unbearable and unaffordable for normal Russians.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
Hamas, meanwhile, continues to exert military control while inflicting terror, despite being unable to provide basic governance, making life for civilians unbearable.
—Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025
But the ads have taken X’s shaky infrastructure and content-farm feeling from bad to unbearable.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
In lesser hands, this could have proved cartoonish or even unbearable, but Ethan Hawke is theatrical in the best way possible, commanding the screen with his every gesture and utterance without overplaying any of them.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2025
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
Hamas, meanwhile, continues to exert military control while inflicting terror, despite being unable to provide basic governance, making life for civilians unbearable.
—Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025
But the ads have taken X’s shaky infrastructure and content-farm feeling from bad to unbearable.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
In lesser hands, this could have proved cartoonish or even unbearable, but Ethan Hawke is theatrical in the best way possible, commanding the screen with his every gesture and utterance without overplaying any of them.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Unbearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbearable. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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unbearable
adjective
un·bear·able
ˌən-ˈbar-ə-bəl 
ˈən-,
-ˈber-
: greater than can be borne
unbearable pain
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