Example sentences for: tolerated

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

  • "The enormous legal assistance gap cannot be tolerated by a just society, by a society that asks people to be governed by the rule of law," said Miller. "

  • He merely drew attention, correctly, to the damaging fact that Dukakis had tolerated a furlough program for especially violent criminals in his state even after a horrific incident strongly suggested this was a bad policy.

  • The idiocies of drug policies are widely tolerated, or often celebrated.

  • But such is the nervous rigidity of our current aesthetic climate, where ambiguity is tolerated on neither the left nor the right, that when a smaller version of Levinthal's series "Blackface" opened in New York, at the Janet Borden Gallery in SoHo, some reviewers followed the institute's lead in thinking that only two questions needed to be posed about these photographs: 1) Are the memorabilia themselves offensive?

  • As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the "wreckage" of a large part of economic theory.)


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