Example Sentences

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Yet even a mosquito bite, painful but bearable at first, if repeated enough times can create a state of such intolerability that the person under attack will eventually collapse.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2023

The study revealed that the company should not use the higher doses “because of intolerability, perhaps due to natural uracil?” he says.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 18, 2021

Of this list, most bad bosses mix several nasty traits to create their own particular flavor of intolerability.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019

Elsewhere in the book, Sebald is regularly provoked to humorous indignation by the stubborn intolerability of English service.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

But the intolerability of the thing, sir, is that Ralph Stackpole should steal my guest's horse, sir!

From Nick of the Woods by Bird, Robert M.