How to Use unbearable in a Sentence

unbearable

adjective

• We were in an almost unbearable state of excitement.
• For me, 9/11 was the unbearable loss of thousands of lives.
  — Phil Klay, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• The dry spring was bad; the dry summer, worse; the dry fall, unbearable.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• In Qatar, the heat for nine months of the year is almost unbearable, Ghani said.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• In fact, they’ve been used for decades to produce the unbearable shriek of a smoke alarm.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
• There were times when the pain was unbearable, James said.
  — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• Those who knew him said the past few days have been unbearable.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
• But the pain can be downright unbearable when oil hits the skids.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• Soon the pain was nearly unbearable and he was drenched in sweat.
  — Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• Some are too rough and have made my skin more than unbearable at times.
  — Essence, 2 July 2024
• But what was unbearable was the feeling of the helmet on his head.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2022
• The quakes have made the plight of these Syrians unbearable.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2023
• The idea of that, even for a few seconds, is almost unbearable for us.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Even the Mahler looks on this unbearable pain with a kind of detachment.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2022
• The furniture is broken, the walls are stained, the carpets are torn, and the smell is unbearable.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
• The crowd’s hysterics grew so unbearable that Sun Ra left the stage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• In the face of the unbearable, Neville gives these people room to voice affection, grief, and anger.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Cathy said the weeks her son was missing were unbearable.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2021
• The idea that that our baby didn’t even get to draw breath was almost unbearable.
  — Kristan Higgins, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2021
• By the next morning, the pain was unbearable, and Lamping rushed him to the emergency room.
  — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
• The Colorado air has been a relief for Hurmence, who said the smoke in Utah was unbearable.
  — Washington Post, 18 July 2021
• The debate of when life begins swirled through my head, and the veil of a child out of wedlock at the prime of my career seemed unbearable.
  — Essence, 27 June 2022
• Thinking about the present is, for some of us, nearly unbearable.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 23 May 2021
• His aunt and uncle had held back yet more unbearable news.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• Gaines' sons, Jerry and Dusty, told The Republic in 2018 the loss was unbearable.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2021
• And one time Lauren had to be rushed to the ER because of unbearable pain a few days after the egg retrieval.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Once April rolls around, the heat in the desert will become unbearable until fall arrives.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Zach Stone, who lives in his car, says the heat inside the vehicle is unbearable.
  — Mary Beth Gahan, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• That’s scary enough on its own, but the reign of terror that follows is almost unbearable when read as well-deserved vengeance for the failings of a racist society — never finished casting Black people as villains.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• These mice show hypersensitivity to cold, heat and even small amounts of pressure, mimicking the experience of people with the disease, who may find even a strong gust of wind unbearable.
  — Emily Sohn, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024