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Example sentences for "insufferable"

Lexicographically close words:
insubordinate; insubordination; insubstantial; insue; insued; insufferably; insufficiency; insufficient; insufficiently; insufflation
  1. The speed of our cars as we overtook them was more insufferable than ever.

  2. They have learnt to overcharge already, and use extortion in dealing, as is the custom with the people of the plains; but it is clumsily done, and never accompanied with the grasping air and insufferable whine of the latter.

  3. But they were very insufferable neighbors to those under his government; and it was probable, when occasion offered, they would renounce the present arrangements, and march on to occupy Gaul.

  4. For though Lysander's pride and assumption was most ill-timed and insufferable in its display, yet Agesilaus surely could have found some other way of setting him right, less offensive to a man of his reputation and ambitious temper.

  5. I cannot return home now if I would, and it would be insufferable here without her!

  6. The servants always expect their holiday gifts, and it would be too bad to disappoint them," so the mistress said, "but it is insufferable here!

  7. The Great Law of Subordination; or, The Insolence and Insufferable Behaviour of Servants in England," 1724.

  8. Before they reached it many of them were blinded for a while by the insufferable glare, and their comrades led them homewards by the hand.

  9. Johnson, as master of Indian rhetoric, knew his audience too well not to contest with them the palm of insufferable prolixity.

  10. But I thank God I have never been a party to the insufferable pretence that they, or any appreciable fraction of them, ever consented to our rule.

  11. Were you too lazy to resist, or did you enjoy being cheapened by that insufferable brute you were flirting with?

  12. It was remarkable, how this insufferable creature could make me understand everything.

  13. But the insufferable pain caused me to return home.

  14. I could not have suffered more physical agony had a thousand swords been driven through my quivering body, nor would my miserable soul have been in more insufferable pain had it been confined in the regions of the damned.

  15. Suffering gives him a certain sort of dignity: but how is one to retain patience with the blindness of this insufferable ass?

  16. What if he were suddenly to murder this old man and stop forever his insufferable prosing about Bernada Siena and Andrea Mantegna?

  17. It is insufferable that he should treat me like this.

  18. It is insufferable that every time I send the children into the corner Vera should call them out and give them cakes and jam.

  19. It is in a home what toothache is in the body: the pain is insufferable and yet it is not treated as serious.

  20. Paris has become insufferable these days, with its riots and murders and houses marked for destruction.

  21. In the West the disc of the sun, unnaturally large, blazed in insufferable splendor, while in glory this seeming city shone in the East.

  22. By day Ivan Petrovitch was no less insufferable to Groholsky.

  23. When it got dark, he was overcome by an insufferable depression such as he had never felt before.

  24. With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of every body's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange every body's destiny.

  25. Glencore, as though the insufferable coolness with which the pretension was announced might justify any show of astonishment.

  26. After casting a glance between the pages of my Zarathustra, I pace my room to and fro for half an hour at a time, unable to overcome an insufferable fit of tears.

  27. If a man wish to get rid of a feeling of insufferable oppression, he has to take to hashish.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insufferable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.