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Example sentences for "insupportable"

Lexicographically close words:
insultingly; insults; insuper; insuperable; insuperably; insupportably; insuppressible; insurable; insurance; insurances
  1. A man of business in good company, who gives an account of his abilities and despatches, is hardly more insupportable than her they call a notable woman and a manager.

  2. Silence is the utmost slight nature can dictate to a man, and the most insupportable for a vain man to bear.

  3. It was well I had taken a resolution to endure for a time, or his manner would have gone far to render insupportable the disgust I had just been endeavouring to subdue.

  4. But the present was insupportable to him.

  5. Her voice had a shrill anguish in it, insupportable to hear: and when she paused there came still more shrilly into the air, with a renewed passion, "Oona!

  6. Besides the petty annoyances incidental upon the laxity of custom-house regulations, no one can travel through the country without a passport, which to free-born Americans, is a truly insupportable nuisance.

  7. Some of the waters of these sections (particularly when stagnant) are so saturated with this compound during dry weather, that they are insupportable even for brutes--much to the consternation of a forlorn traveller.

  8. His mother left the room; then, moved by insupportable regret, I just murmured the words "Dr.

  9. It was now noonday, and the sun darted insupportable rays.

  10. If she had been single in calamity, her tale would have been listened to with insupportable sympathy; but the frequency of the spectacle of distress seems to lessen the compassion with which it is reviewed.

  11. He was seized with deadly sickness, and insisted upon leaving the carriage, whose movements shocked his stomach and head to an insupportable degree.

  12. And then, as any rigid rule becomes an insupportable annoyance to him, every liberty which he takes pleases him as though it were a victory, and he would never yield even to grammar.

  13. He could not endure the wearing of ornaments; the slightest constraint was insupportable to him.

  14. My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings.

  15. No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.

  16. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M.

  17. But dreading lest some scheme was in agitation to take her from him, he sat in insupportable anxiety 'till she should summons the maid.

  18. The eldest Miss Ashwood, now about fourteen, was an insupportable torment to Emmeline, as she had taken it into her head to form, with her, a sentimental friendship.

  19. And next what terror insupportable will now seize the wicked!

  20. The like display of divine majesty was insupportable to Saul of Tarsus when on his way to Damascus.

  21. She wanted little; she could endure much; she had many resources in her own mind; she considered no evil as insupportable but the unworthiness of those she loved; and when she looked on Evellin, she did not fear that trial.

  22. Her beauty was not insupportable till she was fifteen; but at that age it became impossible to endure it.

  23. She had not advanced as rapidly as she had hoped to do, and it would be insupportable humiliation to return.

  24. She looks as if her name ought to be Lucy," said Isabel, to whom the pure empty face had appeared like a vision from some former dull existence, and left behind it an echo of insupportable ennui.

  25. Ruined property, prodigious debts, and insupportable lawsuits disturbed the few sober hours of the day.

  26. Had Charles been less able and less moderate, what was insupportable in these incongruities would have been felt as a grievance by all his states; but seldom has a prince maintained so long, a position in itself untenable.

  27. At last, however, the time came when his pride and pretensions rose so high that the intractable independence of the Protestant party became insupportable to him, and then his long concealed opposition broke forth into hate.

  28. But the sword of Achilles, if it tired him, was bound to be of insupportable weight to a myrmidon.

  29. Since his rupture with Richelieu, he found life insupportable at Versailles and he tried to conquer torpor by agitation, and by change of residence.

  30. Do but seriously consider how much more insupportable and painful an immortal life would be to man than what I have already given him.

  31. Laelius too was probably afflicted at having to embark alone, but he did not regard it as an insupportable calamity.

  32. He has become almost insupportable since they have named him for Moderator.

  33. Some insupportable coxcomb was boasting a marvellous run with the hounds nigh across Hertfordshire, and Miss Manners brought him up with a round turn and a half hitch by relating one of your exploits, Richard Carvel.

  34. Illustration: "Alone on the wild Heath I disburdened my heart of an insupportable load, by giving free vent to my tears.

  35. Alone on the wild heath, I disburdened my heart of an insupportable load, by giving free vent to my tears.

  36. The girl's face clouded perceptibly, and she loosened her cloak and threw it from her shoulders as though it had become an insupportable burden.

  37. When she opened the boudoir window and so permitted Alban to overhear her hurried words, it was as one who found the atmosphere of a house insupportable and must breathe fresh air at any cost.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insupportable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.