Example sentences for: tolerable

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

  • If I could be Hamlet, or even a clown with a breaking heart 'neath his jester's motley, the role would be tolerable.

  • (Maybe even a day or two sooner if Slate 's hearty software developers are willing to suspend their centuries-old common-law right to a three-hour lunch break, double helpings of Caesar salad and salmon hash, and 1.3 liters of a tolerable sauvignon blanc, followed by a nap of at least two hours' duration.

  • He only knows the politics of the truncheon, a quality that's tolerable in a backbencher but terrifying in a leader.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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