TOLERATE in a Sentence

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Of all the heterogeneous mass of people who had poured into Atlanta, the army people alone she refused to receive or tolerate.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOLERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tolerate
 v.  endure; withstand; allow without prohibiting or opposing; permit
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  She was too exhausted and weak from fright to tolerate weakness in anyone else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Of all the heterogeneous mass of people who had poured into Atlanta, the army people alone she refused to receive or tolerate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  There are some things that the Southern white man will not tolerate, and the obscene intimations of the foregoing have brought the writer to the very outermost limit of public patience.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
4  Three times now the agent had warned him that he would not tolerate another delay.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  Just when his mother was beginning to tolerate one scheme he had introduced another still bitterer than the first, and the combination was more than she could bear.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
6  I am perfectly satisfied with your company if you will tolerate mine.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
7  Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, especially if it was dirty.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In III
8  could not tolerate any impediment to his efforts where his trial was concerned, and these impediments were probably caused by the lawyer himself.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
9  Edgar must shake off his antipathy, and tolerate him, at least.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Sometimes, she would coldly tolerate me; sometimes, she would condescend to me; sometimes, she would be quite familiar with me; sometimes, she would tell me energetically that she hated me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
11  If you only knew the problem I have to face, and that I am working out, you would pity, and tolerate, and pardon me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  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
13  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
14  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.
15  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
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
16  She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable.
17  At their best the conditions in these prisons are scarcely tolerable.
18  When we got to the cabin we took a look at the front and the two sides; and on the side I warn't acquainted with -- which was the north side -- we found a square window-hole, up tolerable high, with just one stout board nailed across it.
19  Union activity was officially tolerated but strongly discouraged.
20  She actually seemed pleased to see him: most of her visitors she merely tolerated.
21  They had put up with behaviour from their son which they would not have tolerated from anyone else.
22  Their relationship was tolerated but not encouraged.
23  In those days, religious dissent was not tolerated.
24  This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated.
25  Wiretapping of our citizens without a warrant is against our values and not tolerated by the Democratic Party.
26  Mussolini has been described as an autocrat who tolerated no opposition.
27  The 64 year old man spoke slowly, almost awkwardly to his people, promising stable government in which no corruption would be tolerated.
28  The 64 year old business consultant spoke slowly, almost awkwardly to his people, promising stable government in which no corruption would be tolerated and an acceleration of the country's integration into the EU and NATO.
29  The saga of the Sun, a statement said, showed that even remotely independent journalism could not be tolerated in Malaysia and therefore could not survive.
30  He watched the kids throw water around with amused tolerance.