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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New motherhood is always a maelstrom, but the new new motherhood, it has lately been suggested, has become a tempest of a different, close-to-unbearable order.
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
The weight of that kind of guilt struck me as an unbearable one to carry.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
That what was done to us was not just unbearable, but wrong.
—Jennifer W. Tsai, STAT, 18 Jan. 2026
Some passengers toss out a corpse before its stench becomes unbearable to others.
—Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
The weight of that kind of guilt struck me as an unbearable one to carry.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
That what was done to us was not just unbearable, but wrong.
—Jennifer W. Tsai, STAT, 18 Jan. 2026
Some passengers toss out a corpse before its stench becomes unbearable to others.
—Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Unbearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbearable. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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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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