忍不住 rěnbuzhù in a sentence
Cannot endure (cannot tolerate - unable to bear)
忍不住 (rěnbuzhù) means Cannot endure (cannot tolerate - unable to bear). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我 忍不住 想问一句。
Wǒ rěn bu zhù xiǎng wèn yí jù.
I cannot help wanting to ask something.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 忍不住
疼得他 忍不住 哼了一声。
Téng de tā rěn bu zhù hēng le yì shēng.
The pain made him groan in spite of himself.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 哼
他疼得 忍不住 呻吟起来。
Tā téng de rěn bu zhù shēnyín qǐlái.
The pain made him groan in spite of himself.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 呻吟
他看着账单， 忍不住 叹气。
Tā kànzhe zhàngdān, rěn bu zhù tàn qì.
Looking at the bill, he could not help sighing.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 叹气
看到这景色，他 忍不住 赞叹。
Kàndào zhè jǐngsè, tā rěn bu zhù zàntàn.
At the sight he could not help exclaiming in admiration.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 赞叹
一想到那件事，她就 忍不住 哆嗦。
Yì xiǎngdào nà jiàn shì, tā jiù rěn bu zhù duōsuo.
The mere thought of it made her tremble.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 哆嗦
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Questions about 忍不住
How is 忍不住 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 忍不住 (rěnbuzhù, "Cannot endure (cannot tolerate - unable to bear)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 忍不住 an HSK word?
Yes — 忍不住 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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