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Example sentences for "intolerable"

Lexicographically close words:
intitle; intitled; intituled; intment; into; intolerably; intolerance; intolerant; intollerable; intonation
  1. Taxes on the Privileged Classes cannot be got registered; are intolerable to our supporters themselves: taxes on the Unprivileged yield nothing,--as from a thing drained dry more cannot be drawn.

  2. The objections to this plan were set forth very freely,--in the first place, it prolonged an intolerable situation, and just at the moment when the capital was inviting all the world to visit her.

  3. Despotic as he was, the king found himself under the necessity of seeking the support of the people for aid in his enterprises and to sustain him against the intolerable claims of the Papacy.

  4. He was well aware that this languor did not proceed from fatigue; it came from her, from the love that weighed him down like an intolerable burden, and he murmured: "What wretchedness!

  5. She used articulate language now; she told of the intolerable torture of solitude, of her unquenchable thirst for the caresses that were hers no more, and of the grief of knowing that he was gone from her forever.

  6. A political dinner of thirty colleagues, male and female, in the dog-days is only a shade less intolerable than the greasy rations and mephitic vapours of the House of Commons' dining-room.

  7. Though written in admiration, it seems to me to describe the most intolerable performance that could ever have afflicted society.

  8. No one will dare to say anything," Lady O'Gara assured her, eager to stop something which she felt too poignant, too intolerable to be said or heard.

  9. A laugh can be the most terrible and intolerable thing in the world.

  10. There was the intolerable smell of a smoking lamp in the room.

  11. It would be an intolerable ordeal if he should be dragged to the Petty Sessions Court to refute the preposterous charge of being concerned in the death of the man he had loved more than a brother.

  12. Himself the son of an Englishman and a Chilean woman, he found, so he said, that a missionary's life in the rubber forest was intolerable for more than a few years.

  13. The rebel party was everywhere increased by all who had joined the young king, "not because they thought his the juster cause," but in fierce defiance of a rule intolerable for its justice and its severity.

  14. But there he was seized with intolerable agony in every nerve of his body from head to foot.

  15. Solitude is a medium which exaggerates all objects, and the longer Henrietta brooded over her past folly and her present disgrace, the more intolerable these grew to the vision.

  16. She knew then that a grievous thing had happened, and a thing which must add much to the weight of unhappiness she had thought intolerable an hour before.

  17. It was a kind of tight-rope walk across a bottomless pit of shooting fires and the intolerable wailing of the damned.

  18. It seems a less intolerable crime in oneself to rob the poor-box than in one's neighbour to have an unwashed neck.

  19. The seizure and purchase of public land, sometimes contrary to the letter of the law, more often contrary to its spirit, was looked upon as an intolerable evil.

  20. The majority of the congressional committee of investigation later made a report exonerating Ballinger, but his position had become intolerable and he resigned in March, 1911.

  21. In the case of the human being the symptoms were intolerable thirst, absolute constipation, low temperature, an extreme nervous agitation, but with an absence of chills and headaches.

  22. What will become of him if he does not succeed in ridding himself of this intolerable burden?

  23. The thought of becoming a French dependency was intolerable to England.

  24. His Physician who tooke out his braines, by reason of the intolerable stinch which breathed from them, in short time after ended his life.

  25. For when the King complained to Lanfranck of the intolerable both auarice and ambition of his brother Odo, the Archbishop gaue aduise, that hee should bee restrained of his libertie.

  26. And it is peculiarly the work of a church, situated as is Christ Church, to say and do what it can to make them intolerable to the conscience of a Christian city.

  27. The blight of Sunday was almost intolerable near the town.

  28. There is a certain intolerable nastiness about the real Ibsen: the same thing is in Strindberg and in most of the Norwegian and Swedish writings.

  29. But the Lazi soon discovered, that their impatience had urged them to choose an evil more intolerable than the calamities which they strove to escape.

  30. This measure was felt as severe by even those departments in which the revolutionary principles were most predominant, but was regarded as altogether intolerable by the Vendéans, averse alike to the republican cause and principles.

  31. I will not suffer the intolerable degradation of jealousy.

  32. As plain Twinklers they had been tiresome in a hundred ways in the cabin, and as von Twinklers they were intolerable in their high-nosed indifference.

  33. It was intolerable to have to go and nap.

  34. We have enough of that intolerable nuisance here in Egypt--or am I to be delighted at the prospect of hurting my feet on hard stones?

  35. The Emperor, who had never had either son or daughter of his own, found nothing so intolerable as the presence of crying children.

  36. There might be a new life waiting for me, but it could not well be as intolerable as this.

  37. I grow nervous and strained; I am often sleepless, or my sleep is filled by vivid, horrible, intolerable dreams.

  38. Jervaise grunted as if the endeavour to lift the weight of my ignorance required an almost intolerable physical effort.

  39. It's intolerable that she should be allowed to go on like this.

  40. Why should they be considered worthy of what he could only picture as a supreme, and almost intolerable sacrifice?


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intolerable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abhorrent; absolute; arrant; bad; beastly; classical; complete; consummate; crass; decided; definitive; deplorable; displeasing; distasteful; downright; egregious; extreme; flagrant; glaring; grievous; gross; heavy; impossible; inadmissible; indefensible; inexcusable; intolerable; lamentable; murderous; objectionable; obscene; odious; oppressive; outrageous; outright; perfect; positive; precious; profound; pronounced; proper; rank; regular; repugnant; shocking; stark; superlative; surpassing; terrible; thorough; total; unacceptable; unbearable; uncongenial; unconscionable; undeniable; undesirable; unequivocal; uninviting; unlawful; unmitigated; unpleasant; unqualified; unrelieved; unspoiled; unsuitable; unsupportable; untenable; utter