UNBEARABLE in a Sentence

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And yet its tradition made her regard a marriage with anyone within her reach as an unbearable humiliation.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNBEARABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unbearable
 a.  unendurable; so unpleasant, distasteful, or painful as to be intolerable
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  After three weeks she had found a wife's life irksome and, later on, when she was beginning to find it unbearable, she had become a mother.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
2  Her mother is perfectly unbearable.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
3  But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
4  I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  But the staginess of her acting was unbearable, and grew worse as she went on.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
6  The suspense became unbearable.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
7  The monotony became unbearable, and as the mist thickened, he felt afraid.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  Basil had said things to him that were unbearable, and that he had yet borne with patience.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
9  And yet its tradition made her regard a marriage with anyone within her reach as an unbearable humiliation.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
10  Certainly he must have found the situation almost unbearable, in view of the fact that, after deriving inspiration from two glasses of tea not wholly undiluted with rum, Nozdrev was engaged in lying unmercifully.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
11  And her manners are unbearable.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
12  To keep one another back, to breathe in that stifling atmosphere, to be unable to stir, and to await something unknown, uncomprehended, and terrible, was becoming unbearable.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
13  Indeed, Beauchamp, you are unbearable.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
14  This wrongness went even deeper than Bonnie's death, for now the first unbearable anguish was fading into resigned acceptance of her loss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
15  The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
Example Sentence:
1  The grief she felt over Helen's death was almost unbearable.
2  War has made life almost unbearable for the civilians remaining in the capital.
3  All I remember of childbirth was the unbearable pain and the relief when it was all over.
4  He's been unbearable since he won that prize.
5  I wouldn't be sitting there because I'm in unbearable pain.
6  It was unbearably hot in the car.