unendurable

Example Sentences

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Paola Marra, who had terminal bowel cancer, died on Wednesday at the Swiss clinic - where people with illnesses leading to death, or unendurable pain or disability, can end their life.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024

Eventually they confront Ladd’s greatest pain, a nearly unendurable loss she experienced as a young mother.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Her characters might suffer from a great many maladies but none more soul-draining than aesthetic poverty, none more unendurable than grayscale lives.

From Scientific American • Apr. 29, 2022

Like the cliffs around the town, this latest stroll has a few trips and bumps, but is never unendurable.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2022

Only once or twice in a summer—on days of unendurable heat, teachers dismissed school, masters closed shops, and the boys ran down to the wharves to swim.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes