How to Use intolerable in a Sentence

intolerable

adjective
Definition of intolerablenext
Synonyms for intolerablenext
  • She divorced him on the grounds of intolerable cruelty.
  • The idea that France doesn't matter very much any more is intolerable to the French.
    — chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • But Kemp has a shred of integrity in the one area that is intolerable to some in the GOP -- the 2020 election.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
  • And that’s for the two sides to agree there’s an intolerable problem.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
  • One can, in the course of a long pandemic, begin to get used to too many intolerable things.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The lack of action that has been routine, the turning of the other cheek, is intolerable.
    — Abid Rahman, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2017
  • For starters, the shooting should be placed in the context of our intolerable gun culture.
    — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • The sarcasm and disdain of Mr. Williams, not to mention the lack of logic, is intolerable.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • That’s ridiculous, but that’s what some of the intolerable people who scream on behalf of Clark have done.
    — Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
  • The tale tells of how King Darab's young bride Nahid was sent home to Macedonia because of her intolerable bad breath.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The tale tells of how King Darab's young bride Nahid was sent home to Macedonia because of her intolerable bad breath.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The Taliban control much of the country, cannot be defeated and the war’s toll on Afghans is intolerable.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Sorting through them to find a stretch of DNA that protects plants from intolerable heat stress, say, is still going to take time.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The Wild failed to live up to their Stanley Cup expectations and will have all summer to stew about the intolerable.
    — Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2017
  • For a man of action like Karstens, this was intolerable.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2021
  • For many, the cost in business and job losses is intolerable.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The crisis of World War I placed the fragile regime under intolerable stress.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • The line is like a long strand of hair, innocuous, intolerable.
    — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
  • This belt around the equator is where temperatures will reach the most intolerable, and sea levels will rise the most.
    — Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The planet could have thick clouds, like Venus, that would heat its surface to an intolerable degree.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Now, it’s become intolerable, and Kenyan Gen Zs have had enough.
    — Kui Mwai, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2024
  • The more the Kremlin threatens to make the upcoming winter intolerable, the more Ukrainians seem to unite in their intent to drive out the Russians.
    — Sabra Ayres and Justin Spike, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022
  • By the time Irene has come to suspect her husband, her quiet rage has grown intolerable.
    — Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Now, for the president, the cost of acceding to the public’s demands to step down may seem intolerable.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • If the path was used on weekends, my days off, the noise was intolerable because of frequent landings and takeoffs.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The March For Our Lives was a declaration that the status quo is intolerable.
    — Sarah Jaffe, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
  • That’s intolerable, and a hurdle that needs to be overcome.
    — George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this intolerable attack.
    — Philip Issa, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2017
  • In many cases, that means jobs that were once simply thankless are now close to intolerable.
    — Rob Walker, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
  • If the situation becomes intolerable, your son will deal with it.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024

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