Example sentences for: intolerable

How can you use “intolerable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Higher concentration than 6 μM in the cell culture condition is unlikely to be translated to clinical patients, since the adverse effects of the drug will become intolerable for the patients.

  • At times his "pride and petulance" became intolerable, writes classicist Robert Graves in The Greek Myths . In Mythology , Edith Hamilton writes, "He is represented as falling in love with one woman after another and descending to all manner of tricks to hide his infidelity from his wife."

  • When Orwell tried to spill the beans about what was happening behind the lines, he was prevented by people who, though not CP members, viewed criticism of the Soviet Union as intolerable.

  • For me, there's an inherent stupidity in the absoluteness of the "Just Say No" campaign, which insists that drugs and alcohol are completely intolerable in a society where both, especially the latter, are so prevalent.

  • It has made standard--even admired--measures that ought to be intolerable in a democracy.


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