How To Use Interminable In A Sentence
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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
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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
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It was in the public forums, the interminable meetings that became routine, when attention wavered and respect dimmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was the usual interminable discussion about it at half time and afterwards.
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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.
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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
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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
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an interminable sermon
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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!
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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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After church, everyone simply resumed to their lives, their lives of interminable evildoing; just as if nothing happened.
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All the efforts going into fuel cells, hybrids and zero-emission vehicles are only going to yield clean-burning cars that crawl along in interminable traffic jams.
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After an interminable wait, the comeback is under way.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe ‘le garcon’ could get round to helping to “fix the dodgy starter sparkly, change the torch batteries and to seeing to whatever neeeds seeing to stop the fuses tripping in the fusebox” instead of boring you silly with his never ending monologues about his interminable poker games?
Words of wisdom
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Sally Jesse here and a White House news conference there, broadcast by C-SPAN in its interminable entirety.
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Since then, it's been pretty quiet - a silence broken only by the glurp associated with necking rollmop herrings, followed by interminable choruses of ‘Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen, Salty Old Queen of the Sea.’
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It bores me to write the words, but that's the nature of this interminable week.
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They faced interminable legal hassles if they wanted to claim compensation.
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Seemingly interminable rallies are marked by players pounding the ball at one another in games that go hours at a time.
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The idea that our home may be demolished is undeniably upsetting, but the even greater threat is the possibility that this process could bog down in an interminable morass of political and bureaucratic indecision, with no clear answers at all.
Argh!
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While waiting in interminable lines, the masses oohed.
Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls
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During that interminable slo-mo edit of England's World Cup qualification the river of molten sentimentality was so ickily glutinous you'd have thought we'd already won the bloody thing.
Frederick william jackson
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No, it's not the frustrating obstacle course of shoe removal, sweeps and patdowns, oppressive crowds, interminable queues, perspiratory delays and airplane food (or lack of it) that makes every trip a challenge.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Fear of Flying: Ruminating on Air Travel
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Unlike the run-up to the general election, which has seemed interminable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why, they took him down to the cock-pit, as they called the midshipmen's berth on the lower deck, where we're going now," replied the Captain, leading the way down the companion and an interminable series of other ladders afterwards, as if they were descending to the kelson, the space getting all the narrower and darker as they went down.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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Kids only enjoy this nonsense because adults don't understand it and any parent who pretends to have it sussed deserves the weeks of sulks, slammed doors and interminable sighing that will inevitably follow.
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It seemed like only 4 interminable songs to me, though the program says 21 before the entracte, and 5 after.
Wench77 Diary Entry
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Here, I am not interested in the technical issues because they lead to interminable and irresolvable arguments.
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She meandered through an interminable speech ranging through topics from sick children and warfare to the superficiality of film.
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The interminable jazz improvisations have been jettisoned.
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Most people are likely tired of the interminable debate over outsourcing.
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It was the interminable non-story about some guy's grad night woes that finally blew my patience out the back door.
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The wait seemed interminable, and slowly she nodded off to sleep.
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It was rushed out without consultation and there has been precious little since, despite the interminable wait for these revised plans.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was now long after nightfall, yet the interminable forest through which he journeyed was lit with a wan glimmer having no point of diffusion, for in its mysterious lumination nothing cast a shadow.
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As de Gaulle began to disentangle his nation from the interminable drain of money, resources and blood that was the Algerian war, Le Pen began his first serious flirtation with the extreme right.
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I anticipated interminable delays in taking our orders but I was wrong.
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Sextus may agree with Pyrrho that such debates are interminable, but they have an important role in later Pyrrhonist practice nonetheless.
Picnic
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Most people are more afraid of being caught in interminable suffering during the dying process than they are of death itself.
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I was relieved when the interminable service was over, and the solemn signing the register with witnesses was announced.
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Later his name appears in the papers, he is forced to move house because of death threats and he can't find work due to an interminable police inquiry.
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For several seemingly interminable seconds no one moved as the coolly brooding glance subjected her to a flagrantly masculine appraisal.
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It was an interruption of his concentration upon the interminable playing of dominoes, or cards, or throwing dice.
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But towards the end, the film caves in to its inner musical anorak, and we are lost in seemingly interminable squabbles about arcane musical details.
Times, Sunday Times
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Show up early, because no matter what time you go, there will be an interminable wait.
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It continually baffles me why anyone with such an obvious interest in weblog usability would continually hector their poor readers with the kind of interminable prose that you do.
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Then he held on to the podium for what seemed an interminable amount of time.
Christianity Today
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And the terrible, interminable pressure of politics is one of the most moving thing about the opera.
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First, my temper was tried by the almost interminable journey, in the noisy and comfortless vehicle which they call a cab, from the river-wharf to the west-end of London, where Marmaduke lives.
Little Novels
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The abrading strain of stifling your speech, emotions and actions could easily make life seem interminable or, at a minimum, genuinely impoverished.
Book Review: The Appointment by Herta Müller « A Progressive on the Prairie
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Finally, it's vital "me-time": it's impossible for Edison to say, but I'd be surprised if he didn't feel this? that (I would guess) part of the hell of being trapped underground for weeks on end would be the hell of being trapped with the same group of people day in, day out, for interminable hours.
Edison Peña's marathon of endurance
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For fans of City, it has been an interminable wait.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or those interminable songs delivered with an earnest warble to three chords on a guitar that warned a complacent world that ‘the new times are a-comin’.
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How can the prospect of an interminable, multiscreen video excite you?
Times, Sunday Times
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Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable chancey suit.
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Unless we view them dialectically, the events of history - the violent chaos of battle, agonies of martyrdom, interminable failures of individual intellect and will - appear to be no more than a ‘slaughter bench’ of human hopes.
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The trouble with the meals, however, was not only that we were all kept at a very high strain of alertness and attention, singularly inconducive to the enjoyment of food or to the sober business of digestion, but that they were of such interminable length.
An Adventure with a Genius
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I get more intolerant and downright bored with this interminable, stomach-churning rubbish every year.
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I agree with #3 – this rivals in obviousness the idea of using 1-click to buy something online, which resulted in interminable squabbling and litigation about who thought of such an obvious thing first. —
Google’s Search Goes Out to Sea - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Perhaps being war babies had given them interminable patience, fortitude and resilience.
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And reality tonight was another interminable broadcast by Goebbels.
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They've been lobbying Congress for years to crack down on the airlines, to stop what some call tarmac hostage-taking, to punish airlines that punish passengers with interminable delays on the tarmac.
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We rush down the glacier solving its intricacies by interminable weaving, creeping over tenuous bridges, snowplowing desperately below the shrouded rock.
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Michael, full grown, mature, was so merry-hearted an individual that he found all delight in interminable romps with Scraps.
CHAPTER XI
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During the interminable reviews, restructures, re-organisations and re-engineering it is invariably the manual workers who pay for the latest management fad.
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The period of thanksgiving after Mass seemed interminable.
Seminary Boy
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After a while these interminable lists acquire a certain ghoulish fascination, prompting a host of other questions.
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After interminable hours of shippy asynchronous dirty dancing, dinner is called, and we blunder down to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers
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Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable chancey suit.
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I know that the Fon tribe are inclined to construct interminable systems of analogies between events or between people.
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We watched an interminable documentary on rice production.
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None of which was made better by that infuriating custom, whereby the waiter, after delivering the plates, stands and describes what you are about to eat in sonorous and interminable phrases.
The Smartest Hotel in the World
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The films are slow with no tension or real intrigue to bridge the interminable passages where nothing happens.
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They had spent three interminable days in Barcelona, a polyglot crew united by no more than a vague common belief in democracy.
THE WHITE DOVE
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As I crossed the interminable length of floor that separated me from the door I could feel that contemptuous smile rowelling my shrinking vertebræ.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04
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Ropey dialogue and hammy acting abound, and Zombie seems in no hurry to wind up the proceedings as the film starts to feel interminable.
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This used to be one of my favorite blogs; increasingly, it seems to have been taken over by one or more of those humorless, argumentative kids that could always be counted on to engage in interminable, pointless arguments with teachers in high school and college (not Harvard).
The Volokh Conspiracy » The William F. Buckley Clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780
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Or is it a triple CD packed full of interminable electronic bleeps and whooshes, both inaccessible and incomprehensible?
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My first task was to deck it with lights, I had treated us to a new set this year, I spent an interminable length of time unraveling the wire, and placing them in just the right spot on the tree only to turn them on and discover half would not light.
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She was always at work, unresting, unhasting, and, although weary and worn with the interminable delay, neither she nor any member of the committee left any honorable means untried in order to secure what was so vitally necessary to the very existence of this board during the exposition.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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We had to listen to another of his interminable stories of his days as a soldier.
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Instead, Greif sleepwalks a cast of second-tier talent through a lackluster, interminable script, all the while lending a dreary visual style to the film that makes it look like this week's damsel-in-distress sudser on the USA Network.
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Unlike us critics, you won't have to stick around for what seems like an interminable two hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today he employs various Max / MSP patches to construct interminable tracks of grid-like tub beatings.
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We had decided to treat ourselves to one last night of romantic excess before knuckling down to interminable schedules of hellish revision.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Here, then, for six interminable years, one of the acutest brains in Europe had to interest itself in fraying ipecacuanha and mixing black draughts behind an apothecary's counter.
Henrik Ibsen
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The soft-core version included Raj revivalism, the cult of Merchant Ivory and interminable documentaries, coffee-table books, fashion accessories.
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The drive home from the office at rush hour consists of interminable shifting, idling, shifting, idling, the studied interplay of gears, the running up of the tach and hearing the engine whine with pure metal glee…
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Housing sales and prices continue their interminable swoon, which is a serious drag on the overall economy and likely to remain through 2012.
Jerry Jasinowski: A Summer Global Slowdown
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They faced interminable legal hassles if they wanted to claim compensation.
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It is all so peaceful and soothing; as peaceful and as soothing as the land through which you are gliding when once you have left behind smoky London and its interminable environs; for now you are in a land that was finished and plenished five hundred years ago and since then has not been altered in any material aspect whatsoever.
Europe Revised
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Away from the interminable platform speeches, there was the intrigue and the machinations that could make party conferences interesting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Josef Stalin Museum itself is enormous, winding through interminable corridors over two floors.
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Now I am no longer obliged to read the interminable pages devoted in the sports sections to football.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then I pulled myself together and smartly switched allegiance, ditching the snug velvet tux for the interminable woollen scarf.
Times, Sunday Times
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They will be involved in interminable and boring investigations or interrogations
Underserved Gaming Genres 1: Cop Fiction « Geek Related
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No more of Dante's deformed creatures braised on sulfurous coals, just interminable meaninglessness.
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We had been painfully clambering over interminable hills and rocks for days together, and when we suddenly came upon this astonishing piece of rockless plain, every man drove the spurs into his horse and sped away with a velocity he could surely enjoy to the utmost, but could never hope to comprehend in Syria.
The Innocents Abroad
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The journey to wartime Buchenwald has been described as an interminable winter train trip, prisoners shoved so tightly into a wooden cattle car that their skin froze to the person next to them, turning the unfortunate passengers into one giant, barely squirming block of ice.
The Lampshade
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I can almost hear the furious grinding of teeth, the growls of seething rage and the sound of knives being sharpened as people prepare to tell me in almost interminable detail why I'm oh-so-very wrong.
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And the only upside is that when the interminable wait is over, you are given the keys to the fastest car in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was doubtless in order to relieve this saccharine and "mellisonant" monotony that he thought fit to intersperse these interminable droppings of natural or artificial perfume with others of the rankest and most intolerable odour: but a diet of alternate sweetmeats and emetics is for the average of eaters and drinkers no less unpalatable than unwholesome.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
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What noun sums up the inescapable bore who buttonholes you to make a pitch or unload on you an interminable tale of woe?
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She's spent her whole life in interminable branding meetings, learning about image control.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe instead produce an interminable, twanging, overlong, repetitive, inaccessible and frankly irredeemable apology for a solo album.
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To meet the expenses of the great wars on which he was constantly engaged he had to impose taxation which, even if levied by more regular methods, was almost as crushing as the unregulated spoliation under the Mamelukes, and gradually his Mudirs and Mamours and Omdehs had to have recourse to the same methods as the revenue-farmers in the Mameluke days to screw the last piastre out of the helpless fellaheen, whilst recruitment for the armies which demanded incessant reinforcements became an even worse terror than the kurbash of the tax collector and the interminable corvées.
The Egyptian Problem
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It is not as if anything pleasant happens at the end of the interminable wait.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had spent an abominable night in Rouen in a small hotel near the station where a procession of nightmares had been punctuated by the noise of trains arriving and leaving with a crashing and whistling and an escape of steam and smoke which, after a week's noctambulism in Paris, turned my night into a period of acute and apparently interminable agony.
NPR Topics: News
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Cleaning normal size okra is time-consuming; cleaning okra so much smaller seemed as if it would be interminable.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Every scene made me cringe as he mugged for the camera and offered those interminable witty retorts with that knowing gleam in his eye.
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I live on a barren desart, which, wide and interminable, brings forth neither fruit or flower; in the midst is a solitary rock, to which thou, Perdita, art chained, and thou seest the dreary level stretch far away.
I.8
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Try to consider this, the next time you are stuck at an airport or in an interminable meeting, or want to fling your textbook across the room.
Times, Sunday Times
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The typical film is an overblown piece of melodrama with a dash of Greek tragedy thrown in that runs on at interminable length.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those limits are what makes the granting of extra constitutional powers acceptable and less likely to result in interminable tyranny.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
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Wilshere's jaws chewed over the meat in his mouth, interminable as cud.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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At times, the delays for relatives and victims have seemed interminable.
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It was an interruption of his concentration upon the interminable playing of dominoes, or cards, or throwing dice.
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We rush down the glacier solving its intricacies by interminable weaving, creeping over tenuous bridges, snowplowing desperately below the shrouded rock.
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The great majority of councillors' time is devoted to the interminable squabbling amongst Nimby neighbours about development applications.
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Our tour of the town begins with an interminable drive through recently closed shipyards and abandoned industrial factories lining the harbour.
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The green chambers of my interminable palace were deserted - emptiness succeeding emptiness.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Yet here he was, dressed in formal tails and a silky white waistcoat and neckcloth, prepared to endure what could only be an interminable evening, all because Keira Hannigan had aggravated him once again.
The Year of Living Scandalously
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The system thus avoids the seemingly interminable delays that bedevil on-line services when they are used to transmit graphics.
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Traffic is horrendous, with streets congested during seemingly interminable rush hours.
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One saw there smudgy illustrated sheets, the Police News in particular, in which vilely drawn pictures brought home to the dullest intelligence an interminable succession of squalid crimes, women murdered and put into boxes, buried under floors, old men bludgeoned at midnight by robbers, people thrust suddenly out of trains, happy lovers shot, vitrioled and so forth by rivals.
Tono Bungay
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I have heard Prince Akuli's singing historians (inherited from his father) chanting their interminable genealogies, by which they demonstrated that he was the highest alii in all Hawaii.
SHIN-BONES
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And, as he bore her out of the high tower and descended the unlighted, interminable stairs of stone, he heard her weeping against his breast and softly asking intercession in behalf of a dead young man who had tried to be to her a "Kamerad" -- as he understood it -- including the entire gamut, from amorous beast to fiend.
Barbarians
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After an interminable wait, goalline technology is almost upon us.
Times, Sunday Times
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He avoided answering every question and produced an interminable drone to kill time and frustrate the interviewer.
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I hear of no great advance in what are thought the essentials of morality; but the bourree, with its rambling, sweet, interminable music, and alert and rustic figures, has fallen into disuse, and is mostly remembered as a custom of the past.
Essays of Travel
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Many a time had he paused before it by day and by night, wondering who lived within its massive, irregular walls, behind those uncouth, barbarously sculptured saints who kept their interminable watch high up by the lozenged windows.
The Witch of Prague
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Uprising from this blue interminable distance, the first crumplings of the foothills showed like purple velvet, and from these again the giant Himalayas -- the "home of the greater gods" -- sprang aloft, in a medley of lovely lines and hues, till they reached the uttermost north where the hoar head of Nanga Parbat soared twenty-five thousand feet into the blue.
The Great Amulet
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They faced interminable legal hassles if they wanted to claim compensation.
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Were they all dead, spring would in vain renew her promise -- wearisome would be the long, long, interminable summer-days -- the fruits of autumn would taste fushionless -- and the winter's ingle blink mournfully round the hearth.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
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Britches Cries" is dedicated to the macaco monkey Britches, that in an American scientific research laboratory, to both days to be born, separated it of their mother and they sewed the eyelids to him to verify if the induced blindness produces cerebral injuries, putting under it simultaneously interminable sessions of ultrasounds emitted by great helmets tied to its small head by fabrics, all it almost greater than its own head.
Feminist blogs in english » 2008 » May
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They had spent three interminable days in Barcelona, a polyglot crew united by no more than a vague common belief in democracy.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Strong ankles and spatial awareness are essential, as you will mostly be performing interminable dance routines on flights of steps or while running through groves of trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only does it give you a hefty lead but gives a team great heart and saves its batsmen from an interminable wait before donning the pads.
Times, Sunday Times
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At least this would be less boring than those interminable slide shows he gave us in days gone by.
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Those days and nights of preparation seemed interminable.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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Au bout de 5 ou dix minutes d'attente interminable, je recupere un peu de tonus musculaire mais je suis affreusement crevé.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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After an interminable stretch of dead air while the cellular connection went through and my bowels tied themselves in knots, the number rang.
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For several seemingly interminable seconds no one spoke.
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Moreover, it is a sordid story of printers feuding, interminable law suits, and monopolistic practices.
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And so it continues with only the occasional hand clap to lessen the interminable uninspiring drone.
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After the interminable drive in the carriole over the jolting roads they had reached Nevers when the sun was already high in the heavens.
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This is an interminable argument that must be decided situationally.
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I was glad of company for the last, long hours of this interminable flight.
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Forty six interminable hours of being seated in front of eleven thin, nervous, gangly supposedly artistic men lay before Briar as he reluctantly donned his finest doublet the following morning, aided by his valet, Godric.
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The seemingly interminable day was finally reaching its dark conclusion.
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In spite of an interminable row of contrabassi, with which a conductor usually coquettes at musical festivals, his performance was so expressionless and inane that I turned away in disgust as from an alarming and repulsive problem, and desisted from all attempts to explain the impassable gulf which, as I again perceived, yawned between my own vivid and imaginative conception of this work and the only living presentations of it which I had ever heard.
My Life — Volume 1
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It was an interminable journey of stops and starts.
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At three in the afternoon of July 27th, the twelfth day after we had set out on the "three or four day run" from Resolution, this exasperating and seemingly interminable voyage really did end, and we thankfully beached our York boat at the famous lobstick that marks the landing of Pike's Portage.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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Roberts then said that ‘our history was an interminable procession of bloodshed, abominations and mass murder.’
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Two or three flies buzzed irritably now and then against the smoke-begrimed windowpanes, and the clerk's dreary preamble went on and on till Sir Francis closed his eyes and wondered whether a small "catnap" would be possible between the sections of the seeming interminable document.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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The wait must seem interminable.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's all set to be another interminable award ceremony with some possibly dreadful performances, but on the stage and next to that rostrum thingamy at which they give the awards out.
Drowned In Sound // Feed
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Here, then, for six interminable years, one of the acutest brains in Europe had to interest itself in fraying ipecacuanha and mixing black draughts behind an apothecary's counter.
Henrik Ibsen
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No wonder some departmental meetings seem interminable and cyclic in substance!
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Yet the interminable self-contemplation, articulate and sagacious though it is, proves to be a bit too much of a good thing, and this gray, humorless, dispassionate novel eventually sinks under the weight of it all.
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Slurries of data are tipped across his storyline as it meanders through seemingly interminable paragraphs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pair looked the part, as they took to the stage after an interminable wait.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just how many of them have read the addled, interminable book that first described his adventures, however, is debatable.
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Then we waited for the interminable paperwork that accompanies getting bumped.
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They continue their cat - and - mouse game for a seemingly interminable period of time.
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The departing couple were then replaced by a new duo and off the coach went on a seemingly interminable tour of Europe.
The Sun
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For several seemingly interminable seconds no one moved as the coolly brooding glance subjected her to a flagrantly masculine appraisal.
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The arguments about it have been seemingly interminable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, I must send off this yarn, which is as interminable as the 'sinnet' and 'foxes' which I twisted with the mids.
Letters from the Cape
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All I do is play interminable rounds of golf, quaff the odd tincture or two, fiddle a bit on the heavenly exchange, and so on.
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My interminable journey seemed less oppressive and warmer days a little closer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadie's heavy eyelids and swallow-the-earth yawns were entirely down to yet another interminable boredom barrage from Mr Brown.
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The typical film is an overblown piece of melodrama with a dash of Greek tragedy thrown in that runs on at interminable length.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having navigated those hurdles we then have the interminable drive South.
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The system thus avoids the seemingly interminable delays that bedevil on-line services when they are used to transmit graphics.
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I slept fitfully through what seemed an interminable night.
Seminary Boy
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He drinks a fermented liquor made from milk; he takes snuff or smokes the rank native tobacco; he conducts interminable diplomatic negotiations; he oversees minutely the forms of ceremonials; he helps to shape the policies of his manyatta, and he gives his attention to the accumulation of cows.
African Camp Fires