intolerable
Example Sentences
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It took violence, punitive taxes, the Intolerable Acts and more to spur Americans to take the extraordinary step of breaking with Britain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Colonists had a nickname for these new laws: the Intolerable Acts.
From National Geographic • Jul. 3, 2023
Delegates likened the Intolerable Acts to “being degraded into a state of servitude” and expressed their grievances because “silence would be disloyalty.”
From National Geographic • Jul. 3, 2023
He followed it up with divorce lawyer Miles Massey in Intolerable Cruelty and trigger-happy US marshal Harry Pfarrer in Burn After Reading.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2016
Since all that I can touch Is falling,—falling,—round me, and o’erhead Intolerable destiny descends.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
Vocabulary lists containing intolerable
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