At the age of four or six, a year seems interminable; at sixty, the years begin to blend and are frequently hard to separate from each other because they move so fast!. From LearnThat.org. [Edward T. Hall (b. 1914), U.S. anthropologist, educator.]
While waiting in interminable lines, the masses oohed. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls] Reference
They will be involved in interminable and boring investigations or interrogations. From Wordnik.com. [Underserved Gaming Genres 1: Cop Fiction « Geek Related] Reference
England, though her many fields and wide spread woods seem interminable, is but a small part of her. From Wordnik.com. [III.2] Reference
Michael, full grown, mature, was so merry-hearted an individual that he found all delight in interminable romps with Scraps. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Those limits are what makes the granting of extra constitutional powers acceptable and less likely to result in interminable tyranny. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy] Reference
And I no longer have to waste my time in interminable meetings, of course! (. From Wordnik.com. [Page Proofs Edition] Reference
Waiting in interminable lines, the masses oohed. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls] Reference
The Younger Son didn't care for it at all, describing certain scenes as "interminable". From Wordnik.com. [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] Reference
But, "interminable" is no proper epithet to be applied to such a course. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance] Reference
They had presented a most picturesque train in the boulevards, like a kind of interminable wedding procession. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.] Reference
To the contrary, it has caused interminable delays. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Cavnar: Adm. Allen Confused -- So, Now, Everybody Else Is, Too] Reference
The modem that once seemed fast now feels interminable. From Wordnik.com. [Press 1 To Cut Short Your Life] Reference
I say: To reach you I navigated interminable rivers of glare. From Wordnik.com. [White Room] Reference
After three years of this interminable journey, she got fed up. From Wordnik.com. [Nottingham named England's least car-dependent city] Reference
Like a football game, it can be brutish, nasty and interminable. From Wordnik.com. [Real Men Don't Shop Online] Reference
During this interminable economic crisis, we've sadly seen this before. From Wordnik.com. [Angela Glover Blackwell: Are We Seeing the Same America?] Reference
At two hours and 15 minutes, "The Alamo" feels both interminable and attenuated. From Wordnik.com. [MEXICANS? BRING 'EM ON!] Reference
I am lying beneath the trees and the sun is setting on an interminable afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Two of You] Reference
THIS IS WHITEWATER, FATHOMLESS and interminable, and the question is where to begin. From Wordnik.com. [Whitewater's Sleuth: Who Is Jean Lewis?] Reference
Baker once referred to the autocrat's interminable diatribes as "bladder diplomacy.". From Wordnik.com. [How We Got to This Point] Reference
Peter Bradshaw is a reluctant passenger on Julia Roberts's interminable spiritual journey. From Wordnik.com. [Eat Pray Love] Reference
After five weeks and seemingly interminable speechifying, the impeachment trial was finally over. From Wordnik.com. [Why Clinton Won] Reference
(Who's otherwise pleasant shopping excursion hasn't been ruined by an interminable checkout wait?). From Wordnik.com. [More bang for your buck: 4th of July sales at home centers] Reference
The wait, short though it may be, when seated across from his wrath, had begun to feel interminable. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Broker] Reference
Only a perverse soul would spend six years seeking to memorialize so bleak and interminable an ordeal. From Wordnik.com. [They Stooped To Conquer] Reference
Citizens queue in interminable lines and suffer humiliating treatment at the hands of surly authorities. From Wordnik.com. [First-Class Airports! Guess Where?] Reference
Writing became the prosaic equivalent of the interminable home videos our friends require us to sit through. From Wordnik.com. [Opening A New Chapter] Reference
Several, while insisting that they love it in theory, said replay has proved both imperfect and interminable. From Wordnik.com. [No Instant Answers] Reference
He takes the stage and announces, after an interminable pause, that he is the greatest actor who ever existed. From Wordnik.com. [Curiously Strong] Reference
After spending an interminable time crossing the sandy beach, the colony waddled past us as if in slow motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 49: Soaring In Kiwiland] Reference
So, for all our interminable bashing of each other, there really are relatively few penalties for misconduct here. From Wordnik.com. [The Money Solution] Reference
It's in the interminable aftermath of the O.K. Corral shoot-out that "Wyatt Earp" completely wears out its welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Costner Rides Again] Reference
The flight is turbulent and interminable, like I'm flying farther and farther away from Katy, instead of toward her. From Wordnik.com. [Visitation Hour] Reference
But even after my interminable wait in Phoenix, I'm still on the fence about opening my wallet to boost my rental-car status. From Wordnik.com. [Get Me Out of This Line!] Reference
Castro will have to stop blaming America for everything but the common cold (as he did in his interminable speech last week). From Wordnik.com. [How Do We Get To The Endgame?] Reference
Then her glance spanned the channel to the further shore, and it seemed as though an interminable waste of water stretched between. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Last week the seemingly interminable investigation by Iran-contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh finally produced a breakthrough. From Wordnik.com. [Cia: Is Gates Finished?] Reference
I staggered out of this shameless, interminable movie feeling as if I'd been force-fed a ton of mealy, artificially sweetened baby food. From Wordnik.com. [Have Yourself A Movie Little Xmas] Reference
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