Sentence examples for Tolerate from inspiring English sources

'tolerate' is a correct word in written English and is commonly used
One can use 'tolerate' when describing an acceptance or endurance of something that is unpleasant or difficult to deal with. Example: I can't tolerate the constant noise coming from the construction site next to my house.

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Tolerate

verb

To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

  • I like the way he plays the guitar, but I can't tolerate his voice when he sings.

Exact(60)

That's an increase that the companies can easily tolerate, and it would make a significant difference in the lives of low-wage workers.

"We are not like other nations who tolerate insult to their holy personality".

"The legal action has made it absolutely clear that we will not stand by and tolerate malicious personal attacks of this nature, which if unchallenged would have seriously damaged the reputations of innocent people".

"We will not tolerate the Germanisation of western and northern Polish territories under the mask of Europeanisation".

I think the party will tolerate the net loss of 20 or so seats, especially if Labour does not improve much on the 256 it held when parliament was dissolved.

Dr Clara Strauss, research lead at Sussex Mindfulness Centre, emphasises that MBCT teachers in training learn to have an attitude of acceptance: "Mindfulness is not about getting rid of negative thoughts, it's about learning to sit with and tolerate all of our experiences, including difficult experiences, with kindness and compassion towards ourselves.

But that doesn't mean we have to tolerate it without dissent.

The study, a randomised controlled trial of 60 children with peanut allergy, showed that receiving a fixed dose of a probiotic, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, together with a peanut protein in increasing amounts, led to 80% of those given the oral treatment being able to tolerate 2g of peanut protein daily (a whole peanut is equal to 240mg of peanut protein).

Only 4% of those given a placebo treatment could tolerate peanuts within two to five weeks of the trial.

Fed by images and messages on social media and discovering that they are far cleverer than the ragged clutch of paper qualifications by which the rest of us will judge them for the rest of their lives, they have grown resentful at why older generations seem happy to tolerate inequality in an affluent land.

But we cannot tolerate repeated and sustained examples of activities that have no place in our community.

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