Example Sentences

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But it is and will be unendurably costly to everyone else.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2024

Indeed, the mother superior makes a decision late in the film that will strike viewers as both unendurably tragic and yet, simultaneously, as perfectly, horrifyingly logical given the mandates of her vocational dictums.

From Washington Times • Jul. 7, 2016

Jane is heavily pregnant and must have the baby before the wedding happens, thus spinning this narrative ordeal out almost unendurably.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2011

“They kept him from being so unendurably alone.”

From Washington Post

A young man with spectacles and a pear-shaped face, who wore grey flannel shirts that depressed Michael unendurably, made a determined effort to gain his confidence.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton