INSUFFERABLE in a Sentence

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When he spoke to her in Russian, using the Russian "thou" of intimacy and affection, it was insufferably irritating to Anna.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSUFFERABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
insufferable
 a.  incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable
Classic Sentence:
1  It was insufferable that Mrs. Peniston should have such creatures about the house; and Lily entered her room resolved that the woman should be dismissed that evening.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
2  This sense of physical discomfort was the first to assert itself; then she perceived, beneath it, a corresponding mental prostration, a languor of horror more insufferable than the first rush of her disgust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
3  But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
4  The sky looks lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; and this nakedness of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of God's throne.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.
5  Now, since her return from Moscow, she had come to feel this set insufferable.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
6  She must be calm, and get out of this insufferable position.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15
7  Assistance is impossible; condolence insufferable.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47
8  His insufferable smile was more complacent than ever.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
9  But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IX
10  But for some unknown reason he despised me beyond all measure, and looked down upon me insufferably.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
11  I was only insufferably oppressed by her being here.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: X
12  I should like balls infinitely better," she replied, "if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  When he spoke to her in Russian, using the Russian "thou" of intimacy and affection, it was insufferably irritating to Anna.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
14  "This is insufferably hot," said Miss Crawford, when they had taken one turn on the terrace, and were drawing a second time to the door in the middle which opened to the wilderness.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  She disliked the president, whom she once described as an 'insufferable bore'.
2  The heat and humidity were insufferable.
3  If we adhere to a standard of misery and continue to compare our suffering, then we will remain insufferable.
4  At school the children made so much of him and of Joe, and delivered such eloquent admiration from their eyes, that the two heroes were not long in becoming insufferably "stuck-up."