Tolerate means To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like permit or allow.
Tolerate in a sentence
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Tolerate meaning
- To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative.
- To bear, withstand.
Example sentences (20)
If you want the absolute best camera on an iPhone, this is the way to go — as long as you can tolerate a large phone.
Social media appears to have a way of allowing people to engage with something that they wouldn’t tolerate in person.
However, Pakistan will not tolerate any efforts by terrorists, any group, or a nation to destabilize our country.
It will not tolerate moral equivalence between those defending against this terrorism and those perpetrating it.
Where Jude Law's Watson seemed only to tolerate RDJ's Sherlock, Freeman's clearly couldn't live without Cumberbatch's.
A stronger gut may tolerate higher numbers of┬а┬аwhile a weaker gut might feel uneasy with lesser numbers,” she added.
He announced that henceforth, it management of the university would not tolerate missing lectures by lecturers.
In a statement, G4S said: "The safety of staff and prisoners is our number one priority and we do not tolerate violence.
I quit listening to his show a long time ago, even for the five minutes I could tolerate his irritating voice.
She said I’d be able to tolerate exercise better in the pool and subsequently do things I couldn’t even consider on land.
In a post on X, Mr. Gandhi asserted that the Congress will not tolerate such “shameful and highly condemnable” incidents.
A Liverpool FC statement said: "We do not condone or tolerate the use of illegal substances at any of our sites or events.
Do not tolerate belief systems that are antithetical to the fundamental principles on which the United States was founded.
The drug is mainly meant for patients, who are unable to tolerate the most common cholesterol-lowering drug called statins.
We are deeply saddened by this incident and will not tolerate this behavior from students,” the police said in a statement.
In an interview on Tuesday, Garcia said the city government would not tolerate what the driver did to its traffic enforcer.
Suppliers should not tolerate harassment or any acts of violence or threatening behavior in the workplace.
But he's tactically smart, sets high standards in training etc, and doesn't tolerate any stuffing around.
He said: “We don’t tolerate prolific and violent offenders who cause harm to businesses or their staff.
If anything, it speaks to how insufferable this market has become and how many traders out there are unable to tolerate losses.
Common combinations with tolerate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- not tolerate 72×
- to tolerate 30×
- tolerate the 22×
- tolerate any 16×
- can tolerate 15×
- tolerate this 13×
- won tolerate 7×
- cannot tolerate 6×
- will tolerate 6×
- tolerate it 6×
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About these examples
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