INTERMINABLE in a Sentence

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I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERMINABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
interminable
 a.  being or seeming to be without an end; endless; tedious; continual
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  She thought of the long walk back to the house and it seemed interminable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  Most of it went to Tara and she wrote interminable letters to Will Benteen telling him just how it should be spent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  Alter an interminable period, the door cracked open and Melly's face white and strained, appeared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
4  It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  The alarmed colonists believed that the yells of the savages mingled with every fitful gust of wind that issued from the interminable forests of the west.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
7  The sun had now fallen low toward the distant mountains; and as their journey lay through the interminable forest, the heat was no longer oppressive.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
8  The curling and spotless mists, which had been seen sailing above the hills toward the north, were now returning in an interminable dusky sheet, that was urged along by the fury of a tempest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
9  The voices of the cannon were clamoring in interminable chorus.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
10  The voices of the cannon were mingled in a long and interminable row.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
11  The splitting crashes swept along the lines until an interminable roar was developed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
13  It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
14  In silence we again drove for an interminable distance with the windows raised, until at last, just after midnight, the carriage pulled up.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
15  So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
Example Sentence:
1  But before I go on, tell me what you mean by your 'Well, sir?' It is a small phrase very frequent with you; and which many a time has drawn me on and on through interminable talk: I don't very well know why.
2  Although his speech lasted for only twenty minutes, it seemed interminable to his bored audience.
3  They faced interminable legal hassles if they wanted to claim compensation.
4  We had to listen to another of his interminable stories of his days as a soldier.