interminable

[ UK /ɪntˈɜːmɪnəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtɝmənəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. tiresomely long; seemingly without end
    an endless conversation
    endless debates
    an interminable sermon
    eternal quarreling
    the wait seemed eternal
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How To Use interminable In A Sentence

  • He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
  • Puerisque ',' Marcus Aurelius ',' The Unveiling of Lhassa '-- but the list is rather interminable. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • It was in the public forums, the interminable meetings that became routine, when attention wavered and respect dimmed. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was the usual interminable discussion about it at half time and afterwards.
  • But there has, in the past, been some niggles, such as the often interminable hassle of getting money for goods and services out of some Arab nations.
  • The fact of the matter was that her brain was reeling about, punch-drunk after the twelve-round contest of this interminable day. LAST SHOT
  • However, being multi-vocular is not the same as being an archipelago of hermetically sealed cries; history provides the difference between Babel (the interminable inability to communicate one's suffering and one's love, faith, and hopes) and a possible common future. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • an interminable sermon
  • I would class this a speculative fiction anyway, but there we start in interminable process of labelling, and lets not have that pointless discussion here. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville « I Can’t Stop Reading!
  • Nichols, dressed in crisp white shirt and blue power tie, spoke in confiding and confident terms about the injustice of White House correspondents 'dinner seating arrangements, the need for "newsy" background meetings and early-morning gaggles, the disrespect shown toward the press by interminable delays. White House reporters see the other side while campaigning for board spots
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