INTOLERANCE in a Sentence

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67 example sentences for INTOLERANCE, such as:

1. The manager is intolerant of fools.
2. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable.
3. The constant pain made her life intolerable.
4. His companions seemed ever to play intolerable parts.
5. He held her lips against his for an intolerable time.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTOLERANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intolerance
 n.  unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs
 n.  impatience with annoyances
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Moreover, in a land where the tyranny of public opinion and the intolerance of criticism is for obvious historical reasons so strong as in the South, such a situation is extremely difficult to correct.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The thought of the animal's suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  The idea of bargaining for the letters was intolerable to her, but she knew that, if she appeared to weaken, Mrs. Haffen would at once increase her original demand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  She had never felt less like making the attempt than on the present occasion; but she had sought in vain for any other means of escape from an intolerable situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
6  But the task might take years to accomplish, even if she continued to stint herself to the utmost; and meanwhile her pride would be crushed under the weight of an intolerable obligation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  He held her lips against his for an intolerable time.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
10  But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
11  I could not endure the sight; could not possibly fly his howlings; all comfort, sleep itself, inestimable reason would leave me on the long intolerable voyage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
12  It would have been quite intolerable, staying in a cell with this wild beast, but for the fact that all day long the prisoners were put at work breaking stone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamoring at what he considered the intolerable slowness of the generals.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  The strain of present circumstances he felt to be intolerable.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  His companions seemed ever to play intolerable parts.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  Patriotism can turn into jingoism and intolerance very quickly.
2  Priests have witnessed an increase in religious intolerance.
3  Food allergy is distinct from food intolerance, which is not caused by an immune reaction.
4  The constant pain made her life intolerable.
5  The act of censoring is an attempt against freedom of thought and expression, commonly seen in intolerant and totalitarian regimes.
6  Far from being broad-minded, the religious leader was intolerant of new ideas, paying attention only to purely sectarian interests.
7  The manager is intolerant of fools.