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Example sentences for "insufferably"

Lexicographically close words:
insubordination; insubstantial; insue; insued; insufferable; insufficiency; insufficient; insufficiently; insufflation; insuing
  1. Was ever anything so insufferably bright as the incandescent glow that brimmed those jagged clefts?

  2. The days were insufferably hot and mosquito-curst; the nights chilly, damp and mosquito-haunted.

  3. His arms swung at his sides, and he threw his head about in a manner insufferably mocking and tantalising.

  4. I was only insufferably oppressed by her being here.

  5. She had kept her eyes steadily upon him waiting to hear what he might have to say, but now the thought of Tante in her rejected queenliness broke insufferably upon her making her sick with pity.

  6. So I proceeded but slowly, and at last my cigar shortened to a hot and bitter morsel that I could barely hold between my lips, while it seemed to me that the night grew each moment more insufferably oppressive.

  7. Wild, unearthly, and sometimes insufferably painful, were the improvisations of Blokeeta.

  8. But this rest soon became so insufferably long.

  9. They are tedious enough in places which have more amusements to offer than the Barrier, but here they were insufferably long.

  10. When Camilla was the model for the day, she became insufferably rattling, infantine, and thoughtless.

  11. All the world knows, that the possession of arbitrary power has a strong tendency to make men shamelessly wicked and insufferably mischievous.

  12. The publishers' catalogues exist, and as for the various fĂȘtes, one was very much like another; and those folk who do not find accounts of them insufferably tedious can find out about them in one of the larger biographies.

  13. There is something, insufferably awkward, in the performance.

  14. French novel was so insufferably stupid; or--no, it was the want of excitement.

  15. If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day it sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

  16. I never resist a temptation to plunder a stranger's premises without feeling insufferably vain about it.

  17. There was but one cabin, and it was rendered insufferably hot by the boilers that were set in the middle of it.

  18. We are polished and insufferably proper, but have no angles left!

  19. I've been so insufferably self-satisfied; so childishly blind!

  20. The morning was insufferably sultry; but, as it had rained all the previous day, it was decided by the knowing ones that the scent would lie well.

  21. Everything annoyed him that day--the parade was insufferably hot and wearisome.

  22. Give him all the excellent qualities you like; but he will still remain insufferably ill-bred and coarse-minded.

  23. I hope nobody thinks of inviting him; he is insufferably vulgar, and presuming besides.

  24. He is doing so well nowadays," she said, after a little, "that I am quite insufferably proud of him.

  25. But I followed the intractable heiress to the Moncrieffs that spring, in spite of this rebuff, being insufferably provoked by her unshakable assumptions of my friendship and of nothing more.

  26. It is insufferably hot and sultry," Bertha sighed, laying aside the novel she had been reading.

  27. Sarah (colored) was willing and pleasant, but insufferably untidy.

  28. The gentleman from Petersburg expressed himself in a style insufferably refined, smart, and correct.

  29. It was an insufferably hot day in July when, slowly dragging my feet along, I went up alongside the Kolotovka ravine with my dog towards the Welcome Resort.

  30. The rapture shed the torture weaves; The direst blow on human heart she deals: The pain to know the seen deceives; Nought true but what insufferably feels.

  31. Placed fifteen miles inland on the swampy banks of an estuary out of reach of the sea breezes, it is the most insufferably hot and enervating place imaginable.

  32. The kitchen, at five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, was in wild confusion, and insufferably hot.

  33. I am still insufferably bored at Beaujolie Castle to marry that cousin of mine with a purse as long as her nose, and both I believe are miraculous, but we have not met in the memory of man!


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