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

Provided that crude prices don’t rise much further, inflation is unlikely to reach levels the BOJ would find intolerable, he said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 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

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

Even before the advent of the Nuremberg Laws, life had become all but intolerable for German Jews.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown