How to Use interminable in a Sentence

interminable

adjective
  • Blessed rains have washed away the interminable heat and dust of summer.
    TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • One time, my wife and I were at a play whose first act felt interminable.
    Josh Gondelman, SELF, 27 Dec. 2022
  • No more interminable waits for a rental car bus to putter along; now there’s a train!
    Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The wait to the finish felt interminable.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But the interminable delays are something the league has to look at.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • But the interminable sinking and rising through the soft snow with each step proved too much this time.
    Cassidy Randall, Time, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Wash, rinse, repeat for nearly two-and-a-half interminable hours at a clip.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
  • These are the dates when queues will be longer and security lines interminable.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Back in the day, Wathan felt like five-plus years was an interminable wait to get to the major leagues.
    Vahe Gregorian july 5, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026
  • As ripping off the bandage goes, this has been somewhere just short of interminable.
    Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • Many tried for days to obtain voters’ cards, but never made it to the front of interminable queues.
    Ruth MacLean, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • There are days when virtually all of your bass will come at the end of what seems like an interminable pause.
    Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 22 Apr. 2020
  • So the blondes set off to find the Creator of the Sign, and their search is interminable.
    Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • That’s going to be interminable.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • That long of a wait will understandably be interminable for many fans of the series.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 15 July 2022
  • Sleepless nights in the airport, interminable lines -- even threats of arrest.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
  • And an outright bad host (see the bottom) can make the 90-minute show seem interminable and out of touch.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
  • Brainy Indians are tiring of the interminable wait for a green card.
    The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The interminable bridge runway felt like a crossroads, suspending the clothes in time and place.
    Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 1 May 2023
  • Fuming while on an interminable hold with customer service.
    Carolyn Todd, Washington Post, 13 June 2026
  • With his growth and development over the last decade and his interminable drive, there is not much teams can do on most nights against him.
    Eric Nehm, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • As Henry said, the time between the action can be interminable.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2019
  • This is only the first out of an interminable number of stairs that Tom will have to deal with throughout the episode.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Still, for those of us in a hurry, or who just prefer not to sit in an idling vehicle, the train wait can be interminable.
    Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2021
  • The list pours on and on in interminable columns, down a corridor and across walls that are multiple storeys high.
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2018
  • This is wary of the banks, interest levels rise and fall, and the paperwork seems interminable.
    Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The reward for winning is the right to unleash an interminable flood of trash talk; the price of losing is to absorb it.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The nascent passion between the men is very nearly unreadable, and the small talk seems interminable.
    Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 15 June 2017
  • Trends come and go, but Chrissy Teigen is out to prove that some things—like interminable beach waves—are eternal.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 27 June 2019
  • The minutes drag, and not just when Shults holds on interminable long takes giving actors in need of guardrails far too much room to fail.
    Charles Bramesco, IndieWire, 15 May 2025

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