TOLERATE in a Sentence
Learn TOLERATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
204 example sentences for TOLERATE, such as:
1. In August the heat is barely tolerable.
2. At times, the heat was barely tolerable.
3. I will not tolerate such gross interference.
4. The teacher cannot tolerate eating on the class.
5. You have destroyed my ability to tolerate idiots.
2. At times, the heat was barely tolerable.
3. I will not tolerate such gross interference.
4. The teacher cannot tolerate eating on the class.
5. You have destroyed my ability to tolerate idiots.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TOLERATE
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tolerate
v. allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1 She was too exhausted and weak from fright to tolerate weakness in anyone else.
2 Of all the heterogeneous mass of people who had poured into Atlanta, the army people alone she refused to receive or tolerate.
3 There are some things that the Southern white man will not tolerate, and the obscene intimations of the foregoing have brought the writer to the very outermost limit of public patience.
4 Three times now the agent had warned him that he would not tolerate another delay.
5 Just when his mother was beginning to tolerate one scheme he had introduced another still bitterer than the first, and the combination was more than she could bear.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
6 I am perfectly satisfied with your company if you will tolerate mine.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
Context Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
7 Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, especially if it was dirty.
8 could not tolerate any impediment to his efforts where his trial was concerned, and these impediments were probably caused by the lawyer himself.
9 Edgar must shake off his antipathy, and tolerate him, at least.
10 Sometimes, she would coldly tolerate me; sometimes, she would condescend to me; sometimes, she would be quite familiar with me; sometimes, she would tell me energetically that she hated me.
11 If you only knew the problem I have to face, and that I am working out, you would pity, and tolerate, and pardon me.
12 His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad weather.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
13 It was warm there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
14 At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
15 The garden was enclosed by a tolerably low white wall, easy to climb.
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 You have destroyed my ability to tolerate idiots.
2 The teacher cannot tolerate eating on the class.
3 The president announced that the country would not tolerate foreign aggression.
4 Match officials should not tolerate such behaviour but instead enforce the laws of the game.
5 This plant prefers alkaline soil, though it will readily tolerate some acidity.
6 She can no longer tolerate the position that she's in.
7 We simply will not tolerate vigilante groups on our streets.
8 It seems these ants can tolerate temperatures which would kill other species.
9 I will not tolerate such gross interference.
10 I won't tolerate such behaviour/your behaving in this way.
11 They would never tolerate the judges because they believe whose opinions offend them.
12 We are tolerably conversant with the early English poets; and can discover no resemblance whatever, except in antiquated spelling and a few obsolete words.
13 At times, the heat was barely tolerable.
14 In August the heat is barely tolerable.
15 The doctors manage to keep the pain at a tolerable level.