How to Use intolerable in a Sentence

intolerable

adjective

• She divorced him on the grounds of intolerable cruelty.
• 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
• The lack of action that has been routine, the turning of the other cheek, is intolerable.
  — Abid Rahman, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2017
• 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
• The March For Our Lives was a declaration that the status quo is intolerable.
  — Sarah Jaffe, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
• 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
• But a freeze, as Tillerson noted in Seoul a year ago, would merely enshrine a status quo that Trump has viewed as intolerable.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• State of play: The pressure to step aside as a candidate has been rising to intolerable levels, especially over the past few days.
  — Axios, 18 July 2024
• In particular, Jenna Fletcher, mom of three from the greater Philadelphia area, finds the sound of Blippi’s laugh intolerable.
  — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024