Sample Sentences forinterminable (editor-reviewed)
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Her speech was interminable.interminable = seemingly endless (and probably boring)
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I'm stuck in interminable traffic.interminable = seemingly endless
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He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water. (source)
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Mr. Summers was very good at all this; in his clean white shirt and blue jeans, with one hand resting carelessly on the black box, he seemed very proper and important as he talked interminably to Mr. Graves and the Martins. (source)interminably = seemingly without end
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The last days of school before Christmas seemed interminable.† (source)
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At least she's learned not to respond to your interminable sermons.† (source)
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Even though I agree with her that we should wait just to be safe, the week seems interminable.† (source)
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I couldn't remember the last time minutes and hours stretched so interminably.† (source)
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These shadows of memory tell, indistinctly, of tall figures that lifted and bore me in silence down—down—still down—till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Finally, after an interminable wait, things began to change.† (source)
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The suit caught light and stirred like a bed of black tweed-thorns, interminably itching, covering the man's long body with motion so it seemed he should excruciate, cry out, and tear the clothes free.† (source)
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The brief and interminable time of feeling suspended.† (source)
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However, even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably, first in the state courts, then through the Federal courts until the ultimate tribunal is reached-the United States Supreme Court.† (source)
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After a while which seemed interminable, he looked up.† (source)
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The time seemed to drag interminably.† (source)
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All through the interminable day at school she was bored stiff.† (source)
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