Example Sentences

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There are 29 of them, and they are unrelievedly and oppressively gloomy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Davis, he added, “offers a dark, almost unrelievedly oppressive picture of life in a tough, hardhearted city.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2022

On the other hand, Willy himself is often so unrelievedly monstrous that you sometimes can’t see past it to the monstrosity of American business that Miller means to indict.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2022

Always a realist, never a romantic, Degas was demonstrating how unrelievedly exhausting it was to be a young dancer in 19th-century Paris.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2019

On the contrary, the life of such a family appealed to me as an almost unrelievedly tragic futility.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin