How To Use Tolerable In A Sentence

I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
Life for some researchers has become almost intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
Problems in his personal life became intolerable for him and he felt unable to face his future.
Between slabs of bread the crispness was tolerable.
Because Selma University was unaccredited, Spring Hill wanted Motley to enter as a freshman, which she found intolerable.

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The pain keeps hitting me in waves, ranging from barely tolerable to excruciating.
Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable.
An extension in opening times will increase the pressure to intolerable levels.
Fortunately there's a six-game home stand stuck in the middle of the March gauntlet that makes those two weeks tolerable.
By medicalising their behavior we give medicine and the state the remit to involuntarily detain and medicate such people to prevent them from behaving in ways society finds intolerable.
I have a tolerable "acquisitiveness" among my other organs, but think I would rather get than keep money, and to earn would always be pleasanter to me than to save. Records of a Girlhood
At their best the conditions in these prisons are scarcely tolerable.
He found the media attention intolerable and went to ground abroad for several months.
As Franklin the day before had felt, so he now felt, the intolerableness of his woe; and, as with Franklin, the waves closed over his head. Franklin Kane
The dread in the Baroque originated with the intolerable idea of a body without a soul.
[1376] Some except honey; to those that are cold, it may be tolerable, but [1377] Dulcia se in bilem vertunt, (sweets turn into bile,) they are obstructive. Anatomy of Melancholy
The combination of glossy production, adequate acting and competent editing was enough to make Pearl Harbor or The Mummy Returns at least tolerable.
He fell asleep just past midnight with tolerable ease.
She philandered with some of them up to the point where comparisons become inevitable, and, so long as they met her in a spirit of frank camaraderie, it was agreeable enough; but when, with their commonplace minds, they presumed to be sentimental, they became intolerable. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
'This is intolerable!' exclaimed Sir Rufus.
The premise for alcohol abuse, one gathers, is that consciousness, or selfhood, or corporeality, is intolerable.
This Harbour is situated one Mile to the Westward of _Brewer's Hole_, before which are two Islands, one without the other; the outermost, which is the largest is of a tolerable Height, and lies in a Line with the Coast, and is not easy to be distinguished from the Main in sailing along the Shore. Directions for Navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland, with a Chart Thereof, Including the Islands of St. Peter's and Miquelon And a Particular Account of the Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and
“We first had a feeling of siccity in the pharynx, then intolerable pains at the epigastrium, super purgation, coma.” Madame Bovary
Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the King during his mayoralty.
the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum
Do they hear about the intolerable strain placed on the heart when blood becomes the consistency of jam? Times, Sunday Times
This is no sense at all of the faithfulness of God, neither is the word ever used in Scripture to signify any such thing in God or man, nor can it with any tolerable sense be applied to any such thing; neither would there be any analogy between that which in God we call faithfulness and that virtue in man which is so termed. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Will, therefore, a compliance unto this length better our condition? will it deliver us from the severest reflections of being persons unpeaceable and intolerable? A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
For those who have not been submitted, as we have for four years, to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, in a word the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first Allied troops made their way through our village, and this great event has been for us like the dawn of a resurrection. Tar-Heel War Record (In the Great World War)
This was intolerable, this was un-American, you wanted to laugh in derision. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
The vast majority of medical staff are hard-working, largely unsung heroes working under sometimes intolerable pressure. The Sun
To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable.
Yet it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
He fell asleep just past midnight with tolerable ease.
First Impression: Nicole is described as a stuck-up, rude, and intolerable woman who doesn’t have many friends. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
But the intolerable thudding forced her back onto the vanity stool, where there she reassumed her daily shape: poor sad, achingly human Beverly Saunders, to whom no Dr. Alfred Curie would ever deign to speak. The Color of Silence is Radium Green
An interim report from the Health and Safety Executive, released on Tuesday, said that the points broke under intolerable stress because two pairs of vital nuts were not attached.
He wanted to end a situation he found intolerable for her and himself. Times, Sunday Times
Make their lives intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
Conceive the intolerableness, if you are at all sensitive, of being watched by eyes so sharp and prying, so eager to note the least change of expression and to use the conclusions drawn for personal ends that nothing, absolutely nothing, escapes them. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
Fortunately, the picture itself is sharp enough that these imperfections are at least tolerable.
For Apollo presents life in a way that is tolerable, through exclusion of the chthonic depths; while Dionysus ignores nothing, forcing us to face the fundamental terrors of existence.
The notion that she was seconds from rescue before the blunder must be intolerable for her anguished parents to bear. The Sun
Future taxpayers face an intolerable burden of welfare obligations. Times, Sunday Times
Do they hear about the intolerable strain placed on the heart when blood becomes the consistency of jam? Times, Sunday Times
She proposed to do this closing at the first moment of sheer intolerableness, and that moment seemed well reached when she entered Creeper Cottage and realized what the attic, the kitchen, and the pump really meant. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
The cinematography "euphemized" the gore so that it was tolerable for me. Sound Off: Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli - Your Thoughts? « FirstShowing.net
The thatched cottages were usually intolerable slums when the poor inhabited them, and were only made liveable when the rich discovered the charm of a simple rustic habitation as an escape from the industrial urban environment.
We started recalling situations, which at the time had seemed intolerable but now seemed simply worth a laugh.
Aena chief Juan Ignacio Lema called the sickout "intolerable" and warned controllers to return to work, or face disciplinary action or criminal charges. Kansas City Star: Front Page
Standing before a capstan lathe had made existence tolerable by providing the ambition to excel at what he was doing. THE OPEN DOOR
This would be tolerable if student social life provided a thrilling counterbalance to the work, but it doesn't. Times, Sunday Times
I only meant her to make a tolerable figure, without surpassing any one. Daniel Deronda
Life felt increasingly tolerable. Times, Sunday Times
When Winston Churchill opposed the conventional wisdom that Hitler was tolerable, he was isolated from public life, his sanity questioned.
Capt C. killed 2 bucks and 2 buffaloe, I also killed one buffaloe which proved to be the best meat, it was in tolerable order; we saved the best of the meat, and from the cow I killed we saved the necessary materials for making what our wrighthand cook Charbono calls the boudin (poudingue) blanc, and immediately set him about preparing them for supper; this white pudding we all esteem one of the greatest del [ic] acies of the forrest, it may not be amiss therefore to give it a place. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
The achievement of greatness through daring and adventurousness is intolerable to the mediocrities who malign him, as it reminds them they are parasitic worms. Columbus: The Far Left is Dead Right, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Intolerable enough, perhaps, to drive title earl to another sort of revenge. Captives Of The Night
The pressure is almost intolerable. The Sun
So it is that jokes that might once have been accepted as bad-taste gags can now be denounced as intolerable racial insults.
I believe she supposed I could with a word whisk Jim away out of her very arms; it is my sober conviction she went through agonies of apprehension during my long talks with Jim; through a real and intolerable anguish that might have conceivably driven her into plotting my murder, had the fierceness of her soul been equal to the tremendous situation it had created. Lord Jim
The muffs have excellent noise attenuation in that they will bring the decibels down to a tolerable level.
Between us and America there is nothing but water, a mighty sea, whose waves are always raging and intolerable.
The paucity of resources, the lack of an intellectual and artistic community in the institute made conditions intolerable.
The pressure has become intolerable since alternatives to casualty were taken away. Times, Sunday Times
So I set to and ransacked the lockers, where, amongst a vast variety of miscellaneous matters, I was not long in finding a bottle of very tolerable rum, some salt junk, some biscuit, and a goglet or porous earthen jar of water, with some capital cigars. Tom Cringle's Log
The lack of land and hunger made the neighboring landlords'opulence and luxury especially intolerable.
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She will make my misery more tolerable, my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.
Men who work in a macho sports world, where to yield a step means intolerable humiliation, willingly befoul their own legacy, and then surrender it to long-term tarnish. Ben Roethlisberger at a crossroads
He could be very tender and gracious, but often seemed tone-deaf to the amenities and dishonesties that make human relations tolerable. Thoughts on setting out to read the collected correspondence of the poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
The company encourages a little levity to make crammed flights slightly more tolerable.
I find most romcoms intolerable, as they tend to be too heavy on the romance, which is a distinct turnoff, but this had an admirable lack of sentiment.
Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable.
One can only imagine the intolerable pressures she was placed under. Times, Sunday Times
This paper investigates the least maneuver velocity through the tolerable apolune and other lunar orbit elements.
In August the heat is barely tolerable.
This put intolerable strains on the casework, the string tension trying to pull the wrest plank closer to the soundboard.
To imagine that one could have done better may be more tolerable than to face the reality of utter helplessness. Trauma and Recovery
Page 50 jumbling of two sorts of flesh together be a sin, how intolerable an offence must it be to make a Spanish olla, that is, a hotchpotch of every kind of thing that is eatable? The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
Normally, the parosmia either disappears or decreases to tolerable levels over time.
It is the ugliness that is intolerable to look at, that turns you to stone or salt.
The notion that she was seconds from rescue before the blunder must be intolerable for her anguished parents to bear. The Sun
She considered it an intolerable affront to her dignity. Times, Sunday Times
Born as a result of a curse, she lives an accursed, wasteful, unproductive life of pain and loneliness, and dies in loneliness and in intolerable agony.
Using local anesthesia reduces the patient's trauma to a tolerable level.
The doctors manage to keep the pain at a tolerable level.
It was almost intolerable,' the insider claimed. Times, Sunday Times
The muffs have excellent noise attenuation in that they will bring the decibels down to a tolerable level.
Compared to this bounty, all material gains appear so small and all suffering appears to be easily tolerable.
Others can decipher the calendar and the lives of the saints, can sign their names with tolerable facility, and can make the simpler arithmetical calculations with the help of the stchety, a little calculating instrument, composed of wooden balls strung on brass wires, which resembles the "abaca" of the old Romans, and is universally used in Russia. Russia
It would appear that farmed salmon contains many times the tolerable levels of toxins such as PCBs, dioxins, toxaphene, dieldrin and DDT.
They were " an intolerable liberty in a Christian commonwealth ", almanac readers were told.
The vast majority of medical staff are hard-working, largely unsung heroes working under sometimes intolerable pressure. The Sun
The week before the London attack the strain was becoming intolerable. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
What would be wrong in a works canteen or a student refectory may be acceptable or tolerable or not worth making a fuss over in a night club.
“We first had a feeling of siccity in the pharynx, then intolerable pains at the epigastrium, super purgation, coma.” Madame Bovary
They who conversed with him knew him to have many humours which were very intolerable; they who were but little acquainted with him took him to be a man of much knowledge, and called his morosity gravity. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
But the new puritans argue that any risk, no matter how infinitesimal, is intolerable.
Over month after weary month they tried to deal with its intolerable burden. Times, Sunday Times
He wanted to end a situation he found intolerable for her and himself. Times, Sunday Times
Future taxpayers face an intolerable burden of welfare obligations. Times, Sunday Times
These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers and nervous spasms. Les Miserables
Life felt increasingly tolerable. Times, Sunday Times
While the Minister for Health dilly-dallies, patients lives are at risk and staff are continuing to work in completely unacceptable and intolerable conditions.
An individual pet is usually more manageable and tolerable for most households.
This is tolerable as long as the level of that tax is comparatively low.
Life felt increasingly tolerable. Times, Sunday Times
The apartment is really too small, but it's tolerable for the time being.
He criticised his own party for'being too slow in condemning rhetoric that is harsh and intolerable'. Times, Sunday Times
Without her beloved husband, life is only tolerable blurred. Times, Sunday Times
But then Nicole arrives looking simply delicious, and her voice is tolerable enough.
The latest CD technology attempts to tame the original tinny, shallow sonics that blemished the recording's three previous LP incarnations, but the sound is still only just tolerable.
The present situation is intolerable both for the residents and for the Travellers.
This is tolerable as long as the level of that tax is comparatively low.
The three-time Tour champ is now facing a two-year ban and losing his 2010 Tour victory, something he said is “intolerable.” Spaniards believe Alberto Contador’s beef tale
Let the court and philosophy now be to thee step-mother and mother: return to philosophy frequently and repose in her, through whom what thou meetest with in the court appears to thee tolerable, and thou appearest tolerable in the court. The Meditations
The performers were not intolerable, and the piece, which was what they call a proverb (a fable constructed so as to give a ludicrous verification or contradiction to an old saying), was amusing. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent? Saint Ronan's Well
Running the X-Dream at about the halfway mark performance averages out, and the noise output is very tolerable.
The constant pain made her life intolerable.
The number of serious injuries imposes an intolerable burden on public services. Times, Sunday Times
Ms. Aschan proves a masterful orchestrator of the unspoken, the intolerable pause, and the laser-beam gaze. Women's Intuition on the Big Screen
The constant fighting made life at home intolerable.
Although by no means a cure, it goes a long way towards making the patient's life more tolerable.
They are a blight on many city centres and disfigure urban life to an intolerable degree.
The daylong flight was tolerable in business class, with legroom and hostesses to fuss over us.
This is definitely not something to attempt in the summer, as heat would make it almost intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
To countercheck the view that pluralism is tolerable or inevitable, the CDF published a declaration, Dominus Iesus.
I can also understand that there are elderly people who fear becoming an intolerable burden. Times, Sunday Times
People move or reduce physical activities when air pollution becomes intolerable.
I suppose the confused and abrupt expression of things here, in words scarcely affording a tolerable sense, is rather from weakness than captiousness; and so I shall let the manner of the proposal pass. A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
For more than twenty years the anthracite miners have groaned under most intolerable and inhuman conditions.
Instead, central government sends substantial transfer payments to the parts of the union that have higher unemployment and lower incomes to make the union tolerable. Times, Sunday Times
However, it has been held that the petitioner need not find it intolerable to live with the respondent because of his adultery.
There are also the golf club memberships, the corporate retreat in the South Pacific, the daily rubdown by the executive-suite masseuse, and other free perks to help make the burden tolerable.
He was invalided home with an intolerable rash, which was diagnosed as the then unusual mepacrine photosensitivity.
She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable.
It seems that their purpose in life is to try to make winter tolerable. Times, Sunday Times
the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum
This is definitely not something to attempt in the summer, as heat would make it almost intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
It made an intolerable situation tolerable and it was a false friend and it is not a good idea. The Sun
He apparently took keen pleasure in holding up to ridicule and in satirising, what he was pleased to call his ponderous pedantries, his solemn affectation of profundity and wisdom, his narrow-mindedness, and his intolerable and transparent egotism. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
The only tolerable thing about them was when they went away. A Plague of Angels
A pretty tolerable farm; a cornfield and potato patch and gyarden, and parsture for my horgs and oxin, and a slipe of woods for my pine knots. At the Mercy of Tiberius
Almost cotemporary with these was L. Gellius, who was not so much to be valued for his positive, as for his negative merits: for he was neither destitute of learning, nor invention, nor unacquainted with the history and the laws of his country; besides which, he had a tolerable freedom of expression. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
That sword tormented him beyond measure, brought him an intolerable horror of suffering in woman, the very thought of which scattered his pious submissiveness to the winds. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
'And now, though you have given a tolerable breviate of this great lawsuit, of whilk everybody has heard something that has walked the boards in the Outer House (here's to ye again, by way of interim decreet) yet ye have omitted to speak a word of the arrestments.' Redgauntlet
She'd taken off her shades again too, now that the daylight had dimmed to a tolerable level. NIGHT SISTERS
Very easily: but we must do it in the open air; for the smell of the phosphorated hydrogen gas is so extremely fetid, that it would be intolerable in the house. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
Eddie's failings are lent an almost intolerable poignancy by his former chauvinistic notions of patriotism.
After a few whistles and catcalls, the hubbub quiets to a tolerable level.
When the heat became intolerable, he tried to publicly put the blame back on the Legislature, and, as you noted, his former allies like Jim Tucker felt "antagonized". Your Right Hand Thief
It was really bad for a while -- close to intolerable like yours -- then it kind of tapered off, then it was off-again, on-again as now, with blissful periods of complete absence so there is something to look forward to. Posthuman Blues
Intolerable Cruelty is a movie in which the brothers' distinctive presence is quite reticent and discreet in terms of script.
Now, it was midsummer: the tubbed oleanders, everywhere set out, were masses of intolerable red sweetness. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
Privacy, that cornerstone of a tolerable life, is being squeezed from all sides. Times, Sunday Times
Woods and thickets ran up the sides of the mountains, and disappeared among the sinuosities formed by the winding ravines which separated them from each other; but far above these specimens of a tolerable natural soil arose the swart and bare mountains themselves, in the dark grey desolation proper to the season. The Fair Maid of Perth
Life for some researchers has become almost intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
What makes Christmas markets tolerable is Glühwein, which is a mulled wine.
They warned it would put the old and sick under intolerable pressure to end their lives. The Sun
Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable.
Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed.
But then, this might have been an ideal passion, as has happened to many of us, and we have never been less enamoured than when in the immediate presence of its object: but in this instance it was very different, creating a kind of fretful happiness quite intolerable. Confessions of an Etonian
The small gaps and sags may be tolerable to an individual, but the purchaser must know he or she is buying something that was manufactured for millions.
Whereupon they prayed that the Romans would have compassion upon the [poor] remains of Judea, and not expose what was left of them to such as barbarously tore them to pieces, and that they would join their country to Syria, and administer the government by their own commanders, whereby it would [soon] be demonstrated that those who are now under the calumny of seditious persons, and lovers of war, know how to bear governors that are set over them, if they be but tolerable ones. The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem
Thin cashmere or cubica is far preferable to cloth, which is intolerable in hot weather. Times, Sunday Times
As Filmer went up and down that room wrestling with his intolerable dilemma he went first towards the neat little rifle athwart the blotting-pad and then towards the neat little red label Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
They can make life feel intolerable, as they clearly did for Donna. The Sun
Then a body came to life with intolerable pricklings. A Diversity of Creatures
One can only imagine the intolerable pressures she was placed under. Times, Sunday Times
The paucity of resources, the lack of an intellectual and artistic community in the institute made conditions intolerable.
They warned it would put the old and sick under intolerable pressure to end their lives. The Sun
I only meant her to make a tolerable figure, without surpassing any one. Daniel Deronda
They can make life feel intolerable, as they clearly did for Donna. The Sun
Chris followed Frad out into the half-light of the warehouse, which seemed brilliant after the stuffy inkiness of the hole, and thence into the intolerable brilliance of late-afternoon sunlight. Cities In Flight
That means the music is turned down to a tolerable level and the arguments peppered with colourful church-related profanities begins.
Life for some researchers has become almost intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
The heat in this room is barely tolerable.
In fact, he was aggressively antireligious, and his anger with her faith was becoming intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
The perpetual darkness was barely tolerable. Times, Sunday Times
If the strain exceeds the tolerable limit, the Si-O-Si linkage can break easily at high temperature and lead to the creation of positive and negative charges on silicon and oxygen atoms, respectively.
The estate is a pocket of lawlessness and it is not tolerable that people have to live with that.
Caring for an elderly relative can become an intolerable burden.
Ultimately, if a client requires you, the editor, to maintain his or her bizarro style, grammar, and punctuation, and you find it intolerable, then it might be time to get out.
The constant pain made her life intolerable.
England, his own poignant sense of possession in her and by her, his own intolerable aching at the heart at his envisagement of her enormously beset. If Winter Comes
Meanwhile, the Dental Hospital in Glasgow is under intolerable strain, with huge waiting lists.
Over month after weary month they tried to deal with its intolerable burden. Times, Sunday Times
It's just about tolerable until then. Times, Sunday Times
sentient of the intolerable load
In particular, Western sexual freedom puts them under intolerable pressure, and they lash out in fury against us.
It made an intolerable situation tolerable and it was a false friend and it is not a good idea. The Sun
There they lodge, and it seems as if the lady in the sealskin jacket must find life tolerable, passing the time of day with the accordion pleater, or the man who covers buttons; life which is so fantastic cannot be altogether tragic. The Death of the Moth, and other essays
When the desire is so great, it is barely tolerable. Times, Sunday Times
He found the media attention intolerable and went to ground abroad for several months.
How should I raise these intolerable working conditions with my boss without appearing crass and insensitive? Times, Sunday Times
May we not calculate with tolerable certainty on his return, and his incremation? Run to Earth A Novel
This condition would have been intolerable, requiring the execution of the boldface procedures and shutting down all bleed air in the aircraft.

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