Example sentences for: tolerable

How can you use “tolerable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Janet Maslin writes that the film has "the warm glow of a hazelnut coffee commercial" (the New York Times ). Despite the fromage factor, great performances by Wright Penn and Paul Newman--who plays Costner's father "with the relaxed confidence of Michael Jordan shooting free throws in your driveway" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times )--make the film tolerable.

  • This might be only peculiar (and therefore tolerable), but he expects me to accompany him, as well as get into the philosophy of the moment.

  • Through analysis, the plan must develop and identify a tolerable error rate (the point at which, or below which, savings should occur), the number of vouchers to select for examination, and the selection method.

  • I first noticed it in the early 1980s, coincident with the apex of the looting of the savings and loans, about when Merriam-Webster discovered the tolerable side of Seth Pecksniff.

  • (2) if the 10percent error rate is considered by management and the IG office to be above the tolerable acceptable error rate.


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