How to Use intolerable in a Sentence
intolerable
adjective- She divorced him on the grounds of intolerable cruelty.
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But Kemp has a shred of integrity in the one area that is intolerable to some in the GOP -- the 2020 election.
— Frida Ghitis, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021 -
And that’s for the two sides to agree there’s an intolerable problem.
— Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022 -
One can, in the course of a long pandemic, begin to get used to too many intolerable things.
— Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2021 -
For starters, the shooting should be placed in the context of our intolerable gun culture.
— Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024 -
The sarcasm and disdain of Mr. Williams, not to mention the lack of logic, is intolerable.
— Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024 -
The Taliban control much of the country, cannot be defeated and the war’s toll on Afghans is intolerable.
— The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019 -
Sorting through them to find a stretch of DNA that protects plants from intolerable heat stress, say, is still going to take time.
— Megan Molteni, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2019 -
For a man of action like Karstens, this was intolerable.
— David James, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2021 -
For many, the cost in business and job losses is intolerable.
— George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2021 -
The line is like a long strand of hair, innocuous, intolerable.
— Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021 -
This belt around the equator is where temperatures will reach the most intolerable, and sea levels will rise the most.
— Time, 27 Oct. 2022 -
The planet could have thick clouds, like Venus, that would heat its surface to an intolerable degree.
— Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2019 -
Now, it’s become intolerable, and Kenyan Gen Zs have had enough.
— Kui Mwai, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2024 -
The more the Kremlin threatens to make the upcoming winter intolerable, the more Ukrainians seem to unite in their intent to drive out the Russians.
— Sabra Ayres and Justin Spike, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022 -
By the time Irene has come to suspect her husband, her quiet rage has grown intolerable.
— Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2021 -
Now, for the president, the cost of acceding to the public’s demands to step down may seem intolerable.
— New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022 -
If the path was used on weekends, my days off, the noise was intolerable because of frequent landings and takeoffs.
— Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020 -
That’s intolerable, and a hurdle that needs to be overcome.
— George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024 -
In many cases, that means jobs that were once simply thankless are now close to intolerable.
— Rob Walker, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021 -
Israel would find this intolerable—Egypt would have transformed from a partner in peace to a mortal threat.
— The Economist, 6 July 2019 -
But the more the Kremlin threatens to make the upcoming winter intolerable, the more Ukrainians seem to unite in their intent to defeat Mr. Putin.
— Sabra Ayres and Justin Spike, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022 -
For me the wave of heat was as intolerable as the unpredictability.
— Dr. Jennifer Gunter, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2020 -
The community then responded in a show of force, and Lahren began to tout the rhetoric that their actions were intolerable.
— Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 29 May 2020 -
The requirement could make the heat even more intolerable for children.
— BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021 -
Anything else would require the state to be held accountable for its failings and actions, and that would be intolerable here.
— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022 -
When the days are not too intolerable, going overboard with parkas can be replaced with something a bit slimmer, and sleeker, but just as warm.
— John Thompson, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022 -
Democrats are right for wanting to fix this intolerable status quo.
— Howard Dean, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022 -
The result is deafness on that side and nearly intolerable pain.
— Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021 -
Many Israeli voters find the idea of Hamas’s ongoing military presence in Gaza to be an intolerable security risk, and this is especially true on the nation’s right.
— Eric Levitz, Vox, 3 June 2024
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