Example sentences for: tolerable

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

  • But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle.

  • 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.

  • In an attempt to distinguish those public purposes that are tolerable from those that aren't, Murray posits that, to be valid, public goods either have to be "nonexclusive"--interventions from which everyone benefits--or else must arise to counter "externalities," costs passed on to others that, in practical terms, cannot be compensated, as in the case of the chemical incinerator that pollutes the air.

  • The recommended dietary allowance and tolerable upper intake limit for sE, the commercially available form, has been calculated to be about 22 and 1470 mg per day respectively for 70 kg adult humans [ 1 ] .

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


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