INTOLERANT in a Sentence
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67 example sentences for INTOLERANT, such as:
1. The manager is intolerant of fools.
2. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable.
3. The constant pain made her life intolerable.
4. He held her lips against his for an intolerable time.
5. Priests have witnessed an increase in religious intolerance.
2. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable.
3. The constant pain made her life intolerable.
4. He held her lips against his for an intolerable time.
5. Priests have witnessed an increase in religious intolerance.
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Meanings and Examples of INTOLERANT
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intolerant
a. unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
a. narrow-minded about cherished opinions
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1 Especially she is generally intolerant of emotion, when she does not fully comprehend the why and wherefore.
2 It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.
3 It was the only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant.
4 The thought of the animal's suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him.
5 Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
6 The idea of bargaining for the letters was intolerable to her, but she knew that, if she appeared to weaken, Mrs. Haffen would at once increase her original demand.
7 She had never felt less like making the attempt than on the present occasion; but she had sought in vain for any other means of escape from an intolerable situation.
8 But the task might take years to accomplish, even if she continued to stint herself to the utmost; and meanwhile her pride would be crushed under the weight of an intolerable obligation.
9 These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable.
10 He held her lips against his for an intolerable time.
11 So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
12 But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable.
13 I could not endure the sight; could not possibly fly his howlings; all comfort, sleep itself, inestimable reason would leave me on the long intolerable voyage.
14 It would have been quite intolerable, staying in a cell with this wild beast, but for the fact that all day long the prisoners were put at work breaking stone.
15 In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamoring at what he considered the intolerable slowness of the generals.
Example Sentence:
1 The act of censoring is an attempt against freedom of thought and expression, commonly seen in intolerant and totalitarian regimes.
2 Far from being broad-minded, the religious leader was intolerant of new ideas, paying attention only to purely sectarian interests.
3 The manager is intolerant of fools.
4 The constant pain made her life intolerable.
5 Patriotism can turn into jingoism and intolerance very quickly.
6 Priests have witnessed an increase in religious intolerance.
7 Food allergy is distinct from food intolerance, which is not caused by an immune reaction.