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How to use interminable in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective, noun

Interminable means existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending. Example: “The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.”

Examples of interminable by meaning

adjectiveExisting or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.

  • Behind them lay the interminable vista of the desert, dotted here and there with an occasional oasis.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt...
  • Life's interminable succession of stages.1983 February 5, Joseph Van Ness, “Keeping It Alive”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 10

More sentences with interminable

  • The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.From the entry layup
  • The list of his idiocies is seemingly interminable.From the entry idiocy
  • The posters quickly became embroiled in the interminable battle over narrative in the Israel-Palestine conflict.2023 November 10, Chris McGreal, “‘It’s like a fire in the world’: how the Israeli ‘kidnapped’ posters set off a phenomenon and a…. From the entry narrative
  • All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51). From the entry blackmailing
  • Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 3. From the entry bark
  • The Weekly Standard ran an interminable series of essays lauding manliness and lamenting its demise at the hands of liberalism.2016 May 16, Jonathan Chait, “How Trump Has Revived the Republican Cult of Manliness”, in NYMag, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2017. From the entry urtext
  • Then there was that interminable, deadly pause between disengaging the stones and the old clips releasing from the hotguns.2014, HB Kurtzwilde, Student of the Tradition, →ISBN. From the entry hotgun
  • They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.25 August 2009, Mike Selvey, The Guardian. From the entry measure
  • Not even the Seventies' prevailing trend for widdly, interminable guitar frottage in could mask Gwynne's basic lack of talent.2004, Patrick Browning, The Smell of Old Dreams. From the entry widdly
  • ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS in astronomy is the (sometimes) seemingly interminable waits between some of the more beautiful celestial phenomena.1990, Connecticut Environment, Connecticut. Department of Environmental Protection, page 23. From the entry supermeteor
  • When Sammy returned from Virginia, after an interminable gray trip back up U.S. 1, he found their house in Midwood aflutter with bunting.2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, London: Fourth Estate, Part 6, Chapter 3, p. 489. From the entry aflutter
  • Scopophilic–exhibitionistic distortions, scopophobic elements, and inhibitions in the countertransference can impair the analyst’s skill and contribute to those interminable analyses that “move” without movement.1974, David W. Allen, “Introduction”, in The Fear of Looking or Scopophilic–Exhibitionistic Conflicts, Charlottesville, Va.: University…. From the entry scopophobic
  • Coming to an end thus becomes an interminable and inconsistent process, a process Kant gives the rather silly name "Abderitism" in order to capture its lack of seriousness.1994, Timothy Burns, After History?: Francis Fukuyama and His Critics, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry abderitism
  • Conrad was always inclined to feel guilty about his thanatopic morbidity and anxious about its reception by an audience conceived of as an interminable succession of Bobrowskis.1987, Mark Albert Thorson, The Kernel Or the Mist: Story Against Discourse in Joseph Conrad, page IR-321. From the entry thanatopic
  • Up in the city, I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock , then I fell asleep in my swivel-chair.1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. From the entry swivel-chair

Meaning of interminable

  1. adjective Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
  2. noun A repeating decimal.

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Questions about interminable in a sentence

How do you use interminable in a sentence?
Interminable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.”
What is a short sentence with interminable?
“Life's interminable succession of stages.”
What does interminable mean?
Interminable means existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.

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