Example sentences for: unrelieved

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

  • The nearly unrelieved squalor of this career goes side by side with a self-consciously decadent and degenerate lifestyle.

  • In the Middle Ages, the emperors decided to do something about the capital’s unrelieved flatness.

  • Anthony Lane writes in The New Yorker : "It is, of course, profoundly gratifying that "The Phantom Menace" should emerge as a work of almost unrelieved awfulness.

  • For nearly half an hour, the horrors come one upon another, unaccompanied by music and unrelieved by any point of view except that of the soldiers in the middle of the slaughter.

  • It is "almost old-fashioned in how satisfyingly scary it is" (Sherryl Connelly, Daily News ). David Kipen of the San Francisco Chronicle finds the book tedious: Nine days is "an awfully long time to spend in the largely unrelieved company of one little girl lost."


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