adjective
definition
Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.
definition
Unremitting, steady and persistent.
Examples of relentless in a Sentence
She had relentless determination to finish the project.
Their relentless use of water caused a flood in their lawn.
Rachel sighed and continued her relentless search for romance.
Darkyn's been relentless in pursuing me.
They were the most relentless of all the warriors.
Albert was a man of relentless energy and boundless ambition.
He led a strong fight against the relentless rulings of the committee.
His relentless war against his neighbor caused fear and anger.
His relentless hatred only made him a lonely person.
The rule of the king was marked by the relentless persecution of the peasants.
The sequel was the end of the nepotism and the relentless prosecution of reform within the Church.
Otto had untiring perseverance and relentless energy.
The relentless vindictiveness of the two brothers caused them to constantly fight.
Those hospital corridors are long and the patients are relentless.
The sailors struggled with the circuit as the wind seemed relentless.
From that time Abdur Rahman was fairly seated on the throne at Kabul, and in the course of the next few years he consolidated his dominion over all Afghanistan, suppressing insurrections by a sharp and relentless use of his despotic authority.
Alan Parker translates the music into memorable images that are just relentless.
And the style is just a little too relentless.
He has performed a great service to our service men through his absolutely relentless interest and pressure on that subject.
But even with a new " cautious " perspective, the action remains as relentless as ever.
But by June '04 the pain had become gently relentless.
Griggs also had a drive turned against the post as Nantwich proved relentless.
More precisely, he was won for her by her mother, whose relentless pursuit of the Duke was quite shameless.
He was bigoted, bloodthirsty and relentless, though one Turkish historian praises his humanity for having forbidden the cutting up alive of condemned persons, or the roasting of them before a slow fire; and at one time he was with difficulty dissuaded from ordering the complete extirpation of all the Christians in Turkey.
Innocent's relentless war against Frederick was not supported by the lay opinion of his time.
Otto was a man of untiring perseverance and relentless energy, with a high idea of his position.
If we may believe Tei`kullian, it was Praxeas of Asia Minor, the relentless foe of Montanism, who succeeded in persuading the Roman bishop to withhold his letters of conciliation.'
At the university the schools were divided between the partisans of the two professors; but Cano pursued his rival with relentless virulence, and took part in the condemnation for heresy of his brother-friar.
On the news of the battle (coupled with that of a fresh army appearing on the Korean coast),' Kuropatkin instantly sent off part of his embryo central mass to bar the mountain passes of Fenshuiling and Motienling against the imagined relentless pursuit of the victors, and prepared to shift his centre of concentration back to Mukden.
Its operations were spread over thousands of miles, vast numbers of men were employed, and both sides fought with an even more relentless determination than is usual when "armed nations" meet in battle.
The relentless pursuit of GDP growth has been the defining characteristic of Western politics over the last 50 years.
In the meantime German artillery kept up their relentless barrage on allied positions.
We have also called a halt to the relentless march of out of town retail development.
Australia's downhill progress was so relentless that Ritchie or anyone could hardly have made much difference.
But there was relentless war between the Hurons and the Iroquois occupying the southern shore of Lake Ontario, and when in 1649 the Iroquois ruined and almost completely destroyed the Hurons, the Jesuit missionaries also fell victims to the conquerors' rage.
Albert was a man of relentless energy and boundless ambition, who by reason of his physical and intellectual qualities was one of the most prominent princes of the 15th century.
On the other hand, in the case of the obdurate, he showed a relentless precision, which gained for him his evil name, ` The Bloody Clavers,' the commissioned servant of the powers of darkness."
Martin Van Buren and others, going into opposition under his banner, waged from the first a relentless and factious war on the administration.
They liked him because he was vigorous, brusque, uncouth, relentless, straightforward and open.
Petrarch began by waging relentless war against the logicians and materialists of his own day.
He attacked with relentless vigour the short-lived monarchy of Amadeus, and contributed to its downfall.
Even the Apaches after being whipped by relentless war into temporary submission have been bound by treaties which the gifts, vices and virtues of the reservation system have tempted them to observe.
Imperious will, masculine boldness, relentless ambition like hers had been exhibited by queens of her race since the old Macedonian days before Philip and Alexander.
He led a strong fight against the ministerial bills introduced to take advantage of the Parliament Act, and protested vehemently against the relentless closure by which they were driven through the House of Commons.
Erzberger continued to be pursued by the relentless animosity of the reactionary parties, the Conservatives (now called Deutsch-Nationalen) and the National Liberals (now styling themselves the Deutsche Volkspartei).
The rule of the marzbans was marked by relentless persecution of the Christians, forced conversions to Magism, frequent insurrections and the rise to importance of the great families founded by men of Assyrian, Parthian, Persian, Syrian and Jewish origin, and in some cases of royal blood, who had been governors of districts, or holders of fiefs under the Arsacids.
A relentless energy pushes the music along, until a recapitulation of the opening leads to the breath-taking close.
Had sales of facade improvement program which he has its relentless newlywed.
In southern Gaza and parts of the West Bank there is often no sanctuary from the seemingly relentless, indiscriminate Israeli shooting.
Australia 's downhill progress was so relentless that Ritchie or anyone could hardly have made much difference.