TOLERANT in a Sentence

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She hoped that the wise elders might be so tolerant as to listen to her suggestions about changing the shelving of the juveniles.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOLERANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tolerant
 a.  showing respect for the rights of others; open-minded; showing capacity for endurance
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  But Ellen took a more tolerant and long-sighted view of the matter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Many ex-Confederate soldiers, knowing the frantic fear of men who saw their families in want, were more tolerant of former comrades who had changed political colors in order that their families might eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Vida was not too long tolerant.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  She hoped that the wise elders might be so tolerant as to listen to her suggestions about changing the shelving of the juveniles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  There's lots of sincere practising Christians that are real tolerant.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  "Rousseau's Contrat Social," said the vicomte with a tolerant smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
7  His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad weather.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
8  It was warm there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
9  At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
10  The garden was enclosed by a tolerably low white wall, easy to climb.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
11  In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, shouting, but he met no one.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
12  A tolerably long silence ensued.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
13  It occupied the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the slope, which was tolerably steep then.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
14  At the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
15  Thenardier retreated in tolerably good order.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
16  Match officials should not tolerate such behaviour but instead enforce the laws of the game.
17  This plant prefers alkaline soil, though it will readily tolerate some acidity.
18  She can no longer tolerate the position that she's in.
19  We simply will not tolerate vigilante groups on our streets.
20  It seems these ants can tolerate temperatures which would kill other species.
21  I will not tolerate such gross interference.
22  I won't tolerate such behaviour/your behaving in this way.
23  They would never tolerate the judges because they believe whose opinions offend them.
24  Union activity was officially tolerated but strongly discouraged.
25  She actually seemed pleased to see him: most of her visitors she merely tolerated.
26  They had put up with behaviour from their son which they would not have tolerated from anyone else.
27  Their relationship was tolerated but not encouraged.
28  In those days, religious dissent was not tolerated.
29  This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated.
30  Wiretapping of our citizens without a warrant is against our values and not tolerated by the Democratic Party.