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How to use relentless in a sentence

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Relentless means unrelenting or unyielding in severity. Example: “A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous.”

Examples of relentless by meaning

adjectiveUnrelenting or unyielding in severity.

  • She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 111

adjectiveSteady and persistent; unremitting.

  • In Clintonworld, the reaction to Grassley’s relentless assault on Huma is one of resignation.2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016

More sentences with relentless

  • A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous.From the entry fight
  • A key feature of mainstream Western media today is the relentless China-bashing.2023 February 21, Chandran Nair, “Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on…. From the entry off the charts
  • And yet, as the coverage became more relentless, she chose to become more cocooned.2017, Steve Richards, The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way. From the entry cocooned
  • He's headstrong and incorrigible and relentless and I love him for it.2015, Stephen Sumner, Phantom Pain: A Memoire: It’s All in Your Head. From the entry work dog
  • But the firm’s in-your-face attitude—and the relentless pressure to perform—takes its toll.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN. From the entry in-your-face
  • Ounce for ounce, few creatures who hunt can match the relentless little least weasel.1978 January, Steve Maslowski, “The Least Weasel”, in Boys’ Life: The Magazine for All Boys, volume LXVIII, number 1, North Brunswick…. From the entry least weasel
  • Or is it the tough relentless office-seeker with a pious front of “religiosity?”1976, Marquis Childs, “Glimpses of The Real Carter”, in The Washington Post. From the entry will the real someone please stand up
  • Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry gingham
  • Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace.2017 December 15, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Life on the Meme Council: Meet the Internet’s Gatekeepers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry meme
  • Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman. From the entry department
  • They were blindingly primitive, powered by Clark's anti-jazz drums, relentless two-note saxophone and Mike Smith's raw bellowed vocals.2013 September 13, Bob Stanley, Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry route-one
  • Auder’s obsessive videomaking prefigures the relentless narcissism of our current self-publishing mania, but there’s artfulness to his seemingly unmediated recording.2009 March 18, Nathan Lee, “A Life Videotaping Life Has Become a Movie”, in New York Times. From the entry videomaking
  • The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop.2005 February 11, Lawrence Kudlow, National Review Online. From the entry blogosphere
  • "I win by reaching out to people one by one, through relentless retail politics." In other words, Mr.1993 December 7, Clifford Krauss, “On Congress's Home Front, Faith That All Politics Is Indeed Local”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Aug…. From the entry all politics is local
  • When she heard about Sigrid’s new position, Charlotte envisioned her whipping into shape whole parkfuls of Columbusites with her relentless exercising.1992, Alison Glen, Showcase: A Charlotte Sams Mystery, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 205. From the entry parkful
  • The human boom box, the relentless straight shooter, will keep all comers more than well aware of where he stands.1991 September 11, Claire Smith, “On Baseball: Green Could Mean Luck for the Mets”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Sep 2012. From the entry straight shooter
  • Artistic, surprising people especially welcome, relentless yuppettes not.1990, The Washingtonian - Volume 25, page 218. From the entry yuppette
  • Youth's infinite choice of roads had given place to a rigid groove, presided over by a relentless marmoreal blonde.1932 July, John Buchan, “Mr Reginald Daker”, in The Gap in the Curtain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, section VI, page 217. From the entry marmoreal
  • Woman meanwhile becomes the fearless, inwardly relentless, determined positive party.1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Education and Sex in Man, Woman and Child”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas…. From the entry the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
  • Mary Slessor wasn’t technically the first missionary to oppose twin killing in Calabar, but she was unquestionably the most effective and relentless.2025 November 25, Segun Dukeh, “Who Stopped the Killing of Twins in Nigeria?”, in The Guardian. From the entry technically
  • Rejecting the lure of vestments, wealth, and status, the sarim waged a relentless attack on what they viewed as a compromised form of Confucianism.2019, K. Kale Yu, Understanding Korean Christianity (page 65). From the entry sarim
  • Ewing thinks this type of managed retreat will become more common as people start to understand the onerous cost of relentless nourishment.2017 April 18, “Sunken Pleasure”, in Scientific American. From the entry managed retreat
  • With the dumb, inchoate misery of a small child's inability to understand its situation or express bereavement, the relentless question ticked on, and on.2015, Claire Collard, Footpaths on the Sea, page 82. From the entry tick on
  • The thought of that relentless, cruel body that smelled of rancid oil, dung, and something more, something gaggingly sweet, almost made Olivia choke.2011, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Blood Games: Saint-Germain: Book Three. From the entry gaggingly
  • Because of the snow at the pass, the actual trail was transformed into a confusion of random crisscrossings with relentless slippery scree.2008, Michal Reed, High Altitude Interiors, page 106. From the entry crisscrossing
  • "He's not on our time system," said one little girl brought almost to tears by the relentless challenge to her beliefs by a staunch a-Santa-ist.2007 October 15, Paul Pearsall, Awe: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion, Health Communications, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry a-Santa-ist
  • From the control tower high above the sprawling container port here, Danny Law helps manage the relentless loading and unloading of cargo, day and night.2006 January 29, Thomas Fuller, “China trade unbalances shipping”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jan 2012. From the entry control tower
  • The ophiophobic Indy also has a touchingly neurotic streak (played down in later films), which counterbalances the mounting absurdity of his relentless adventures.2005, Alec Worley, Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Méliès to, The Lord of the Rings…. From the entry ophiophobic
  • These are the pioneers of the suppressed and scorned Americans who dared to oppose the relentless bichromatism that entrapped white and black Americans alike.1999, Martha Hodes, editor, Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. From the entry bichromatism
  • How repulsive, I thought, it was to watch the rice, meat, fish and vegetables meshed by the relentless grinding of his teeth?1993, K.S. Maniam [pseudonym; Subramaniam Krishnan], In a Far Country (Skoob Pacifica; 2003), London: Skoob Books Publishing, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry wolve down
  • Her fervent campaign in this endeavor is quite relentless, extensive, and simply "Wonder Womanesque" in her diverse roles of scholar, educator, lecturer, performer.1991 October 3, Joseph C. Lai, “The ongoing creative journey of Violet Archer”, in The Gateway, volume 81, number 9, University of…. From the entry Wonder Womanesque
  • The dog eloped with a white wolfess, and proved a good husband and father until his household was destroyed by relentless man.1922, Souls for Sale, page 384. From the entry wolfess
  • We now know that the heedless exploitation of our external environment has been so relentless and irresponsible that human survival on Earth has been placed in actual jeopardy.2026 January 18, “How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’? Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be…. From the entry human fracking
  • When neither Fenn nor the finder provided any, the tribe of dot connectors and pattern recognizers began subjecting the scant photographic documentation of the discovery to relentless analysis.2025 March 27, Benjamin Wallace, “The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dot connector
  • It has become the object of relentless criticism, if not ridicule: across the globe, projects have been attacked as overvalued and disconnected to the developmental needs of host countries.2018 December 18, Karim Raslan, “2018 was meant to be Xi Jinping’s year. Then China’s Belt and Road unravelled”, in South China Morning Post. From the entry Belt and Road
  • But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool”, in BBC. From the entry pile
  • Aside from the utopian vibe there was a relentless Stepfordian positivity so that even that last traditional bastion of critical thought—gossipping about coworkers—was well out of bounds.2010, Franklin Schneider, Canned: How I Lost Ten Jobs in Ten Years and Learn to Love Unemployment, page 249. From the entry Stepfordian
  • The high angel, Michael, flanked by the two commanders, continued his relentless attack bearing grimly and deliberately down upon the two dark leaders, Python and Jezebel.2008, Miriam E. Bellamy, Demons in the Sanctuary. From the entry high angel

Meaning of relentless

  1. adjective Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.
  2. adjective Steady and persistent; unremitting.

Full definition of relentless

Questions about relentless in a sentence

How do you use relentless in a sentence?
Relentless is used as an adjective. For example: “A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous.”
What is a short sentence with relentless?
“Artistic, surprising people especially welcome, relentless yuppettes not.”
What does relentless mean?
Relentless means unrelenting or unyielding in severity.

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