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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?
Recent Examples of unbearable from the Web
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Other items, like a care package, are haunting reminders of families suffering unbearable loss.
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Poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, / under unbearable duress and only with the hope / that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.
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The studies were conducted in seven countries between 1962 and 2009 and used various definitions of tiredness, including unbearable fatigue, weariness, lethargy, malaise and feeling knackered, run down and in need of a tonic.
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Some miss school, work, and sports activities because the pain can be unbearable and they are confined to their comfort spaces.
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But the plane remained parked for an unbearable 45 minutes.
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Nine seasons of flying saucers would have been unbearable.
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Sholom Auslander's hilarious Hope: A Tragedy was largely about the unbearable sense of personal absurdity her story creates in its hearers.
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These interdependent links could increase to a point where to break them in a unilateral breach of international obligations would carry unbearable costs.
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First Known Use of unbearable
15th century
UNBEARABLE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of unbearable for English Language Learners
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: too bad, harsh, or extreme to be accepted or endured : not bearable
UNBEARABLE Defined for Kids
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: seeming too great or too bad to put up with There was a long, unbearable silence. — Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer
unbearably
\-blē\ adverb an unbearably long storyLearn More about unbearable
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