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Meanings of unbearable in English

Portuguese
insuportável
Catalan
insuportable
Spanish
intolerable

Incapable of being put up with.

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insuportável
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Examples for "intolerable"
Examples for "intolerable"
1
Direct state intervention, he said, was sometimes necessary to correct intolerable inequalities.
The Guardian
2
The one evil in all is the intolerable length of the debates.
Practical Essays
3
The air was dusky; the cold, in spite of the fire, intolerable.
A Mountain Woman
4
If the situation looked bleak before the vote, now it looks intolerable.
The Guardian
5
But doing so without a clear idea of their purpose was intolerable.
Ilse Witch
1
The heaving bosom could bear silence no longer; the insult was unendurable.
The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse
2
But thinking that he's being tortured specifically to incapacitate me is unendurable.
Mockingjay
3
The furious storm made the horror of the situation tenfold more unendurable.
A Lover in Homespun / And Other Stories
4
The more she thought of it the more unendurable her position appeared.
A Young Girl's Wooing
5
But this is the same tyranny that you found unendurable in Spottsylvania.
The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
1
But the heat and the suffocation in this atmosphere became almost insupportable.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
2
No; it was not the weather that made Rockhold insupportable to me.
For Woman's Love
3
To me the most insupportable part of it will be the singers.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
4
The long books about the black poverty of cities became quite insupportable.
Alarms and Discursions
5
The stillness was insupportable, and it was his duty to break it.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
Usage of unbearable in English
1
In winter time the climate is equable; in summer it is unbearable.
With the British Army in The Holy Land
2
Thank God for this; life in the trenches would otherwise be unbearable.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
3
I find it unbearable to see the love yet know the fate.
The Guardian
4
For the thought of entering the house in Arlington Street was unbearable.
Richard Carvel — Volume 05
5
Under the best of circumstances, the windowless room would have been unbearable.
Iron lace
6
Exam Tips: Don't put unbearable pressure on your children during the exams.
The Irish Times
7
The night was unbearable with stress; I could not move nor breathe.
Summers at Castle Auburn
8
And the pathos of her belief in Nicky was unbearable to Anthony.
The Tree of Heaven
9
He felt a pride in the unbearable confusion of architecture and traffic.
Erik Dorn
10
The truth is my life here is unbearable; my heart is breaking.
Mauprat
11
And trench conditions in the long hard winter were all but unbearable.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
12
The thought was unbearable, and he resolved to banish it in action.
Boy Scouts in a Submarine; Or, Searching an Ocean Floor
13
I felt pain for this young woman and for her unbearable loss.
Bare Bones
14
It was unbearable. I really want to have a successful singing career.
The Guardian
15
The food was unbearable, and lessons were reading and copying Bible verses.
Prince Lestat
16
For some reason this seemed the one thing unbearable in her experience.
The Web of Life
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