INSUFFERABLE in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for INSUFFERABLE, such as:
1. The heat and humidity were insufferable.
2. I was only insufferably oppressed by her being here.
3. His insufferable smile was more complacent than ever.
4. She must be calm, and get out of this insufferable position.
5. But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable.
2. I was only insufferably oppressed by her being here.
3. His insufferable smile was more complacent than ever.
4. She must be calm, and get out of this insufferable position.
5. But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable.
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Meanings and Examples of INSUFFERABLE
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insufferable
a. (used of persons or their behavior) unbearably arrogant or conceited
a. too extreme to bear
Classic Sentence:
1 It was insufferable that Mrs. Peniston should have such creatures about the house; and Lily entered her room resolved that the woman should be dismissed that evening.
2 This sense of physical discomfort was the first to assert itself; then she perceived, beneath it, a corresponding mental prostration, a languor of horror more insufferable than the first rush of her disgust.
3 But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
4 The sky looks lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; and this nakedness of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of God's throne.
5 Now, since her return from Moscow, she had come to feel this set insufferable.
6 She must be calm, and get out of this insufferable position.
7 Assistance is impossible; condolence insufferable.
8 His insufferable smile was more complacent than ever.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
9 But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable.
10 But for some unknown reason he despised me beyond all measure, and looked down upon me insufferably.
11 I was only insufferably oppressed by her being here.
12 I should like balls infinitely better," she replied, "if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting.
13 When he spoke to her in Russian, using the Russian "thou" of intimacy and affection, it was insufferably irritating to Anna.
14 "This is insufferably hot," said Miss Crawford, when they had taken one turn on the terrace, and were drawing a second time to the door in the middle which opened to the wilderness.
Example Sentence:
1 She disliked the president, whom she once described as an 'insufferable bore'.
2 The heat and humidity were insufferable.
3 If we adhere to a standard of misery and continue to compare our suffering, then we will remain insufferable.
4 At school the children made so much of him and of Joe, and delivered such eloquent admiration from their eyes, that the two heroes were not long in becoming insufferably "stuck-up."