Example sentences for: tolerable

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

  • 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.

  • 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 ] .

  • These risks would be acceptably mitigated if the statistical sampling plan provided for (1) the scope or extent of invoice examination to be commensurate with the risk to the government,14 (2) sampling from the universe of all invoices under $2,500 not subject to complete examination, (3) effective monitoring to ensure that the plan is effectively implemented and the risks to the government remain within tolerable limits, and (4) a continuing relationship with the vendor so that the risk of loss is minimized.

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

  • 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.


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