tolerably

How To Use tolerably In A Sentence

• I play the piano tolerably well, though I have no particular talent for it.
• He plays the piano tolerably .
• After the death, staff at the home became intolerably cruel to her and made her life a living hell.
• First came a tolerably good band, a little too drummy, but still not amiss -- well dressed, only the performers being of all colours, from white, down to jet -- black, had a curious hodge -- podge, or piebald appearance. Tom Cringle's Log
• The play is tolerably amusing, but it is let down by the actors' weak performances.
• At each end of the vessel is a raised deck, forming tolerably commodious quarters for officers and men; and the forecastle is made to carry one or two heavy guns. Her Majesty's Ship Majestic Keeping Watch over the Steam-Rams in the Mersey.
• Pictures of an intolerably alluring British woman with a fabulous body were splashed across newspapers around Britain and the world.
• The _aggregate result_ in such cases may be tolerably certain, while the _individual cases_ are very much the reverse; and hence human wisdom, proceeding on a well-ascertained body of _statistics_, may construct a scheme for securing some against the evils to which they would otherwise have been liable, by means of the sacrifices of others, who would not have been in fact, although they might have been, for ought they know, liable to the same. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
• The cries of a dog when beaten often exhibit the same peculiarity; so, too, the puppy, before he has attained skill in barking, will often prolong each utterance in a way which makes its relation to the ancient mode of expression tolerably clear. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization
• They were tolerably happy together, as marriages seem to go, a happiness achieved partly by agreeing to differ.