unbearable

Example Sentences

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If both sides decide the costs of the war are becoming unbearable, they could cut an agreement that stops the fighting while deferring decisions on the toughest issues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

"Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony. We are in agony. It is unbearable," popular morning show presenter Savannah Guthrie said in an interview with fellow NBC News anchor Hoda Kotb.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Plain language, ordinary intimacies—Ebert’s directness makes it possible to feel the moment with nearly the same unbearable immediacy that Penn creates in the film.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

"This is becoming unbearable," Ofelia Oliva, a 64-year-old Havana resident, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

The thought of the small cub far from home and hungry, at the mercy of Gupta’s men, was unbearable.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins