unbearable

Preposition: at

• time: The pressure he lived with must have been unbearable at times.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The story moves slowly, which makes the suspense almost unbearable.
• find: Brown was attached to the 12th East Worcester Regiment of Foot and found army life unbearable.

Modifies a noun

• lightness: This is the " unbearable lightness of being " .
• poignancy: Then the unbearable poignancy of Mama Kass's Dream a Little Dream of Me chosen for his young daughters.. .
• suffering: In short " unbearable suffering " can be improved with good access to high quality palliative support.
• burden: Traffic through many country villages is already an unbearable burden.
• tension: Every last tiny detail is drenched with unbearable tension, especially at the very beginning.
• pain: With a physical death there is a public funeral, a ritual to help us through the unbearable pain of loss.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: However, the writing quickly degraded to being almost unbearable.
• nearly: The stress that battle adds to my body is nearly unbearable.
• pretty: The subway always smelled of wee back then, so I guess it must be pretty unbearable by now.
• completely: Otherwise a life as a member of a pack will become completely unbearable.
• quite: Especially for the Gala shows, which can get quite unbearable!
• so: There were people crying out to God to kill them because the pain was so unbearable.

Infinitive complement

• watch: Fadeyev's acting was intense, his grief in the last act was unbearable to watch.

Used with adjective complement

• become: He gave me the only security I had left in a life which had become unbearable.
• seem: The sound of the wind in the chimes seems even more unbearable than silence.
• get: Especially for the Gala shows, which can get quite unbearable!
• find: I would rather have a baby than go to the dentist - which I find more unbearable.