intolerable

Example Sentences

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Across more than 400 pages, the report describes how the NHS faced intolerable pressure as it faced wave after wave of Covid.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Meta attorney Phyllis Jones showed jurors Instagram posts, text messages and ephemera from her high school years in which Kaley portrayed her home life as intolerable.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

That Epstein’s crimes were confined to himself and a few enablers, chiefly Ghislaine Maxwell, was intolerable to influencers and politicos determined to attribute all bad things to the dark workings of cabals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The National Association for Gun Rights decried Pirro’s warning as “unacceptable and intolerable comments by a sitting US attorney.”

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

She had, likewise, a fierce and a hard eye: it reminded me of Mrs. Reed’s; she mouthed her words in speaking; her voice was deep, its inflections very pompous, very dogmatical,—very intolerable, in short.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë