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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The weight gain was depressing, but the weakness was intolerable.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• The first five episodes — each devoted to the events of a single day — are a study in how people behave in intolerable situations.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2022
• For many veterans of the post-9/11 wars, leaving their allies behind is a deep, even intolerable, wound.
  — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2021
• And then the age-old question: At what point do the intolerant become intolerable?
  — Harper Simon, SPIN, 20 May 2022
• For a while, there were even popular movements demonstrating that those things were intolerable to the people who lived under them.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
• In his version, any move to protect public health in the form of recommendations—let alone mandates—is an intolerable harshing of the vibe.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Ivy’s daughter, Mia, is born on the commune and grows up under its intolerable oppression.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• An intolerable aspect of yourself clocked in your spouse.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2021
• Workplace violence is intolerable and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law by this office.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• However, when men and women viewed their levels of stress at work to be intolerable, DHEA production dropped.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Apr. 2021
• But this past winter, the conditions at Unifi, which services planes for United and Delta, became intolerable.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 July 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024