Example Sentences

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The U.K. publication NME called McCartney’s 1971 album “Ram” an “excursion into almost unrelieved tedium.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Michieletto’s “Samson et Dalila” staging was scheduled for New York in 2018 but was scrapped when Met general manager Peter Gelb concluded it was “somewhat unrelieved in its bleakness.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024

How, then, can the L.A. of unrelieved light be also the L.A. of noir film and fiction?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022

“Jewish women and men experienced unrelieved suffering during the Holocaust,” Dr. Ringelheim wrote in the volume “Women in the Holocaust,” edited by Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2021

Other people of color lay down there, too, moaning and groaning in unrelieved pain.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry