Sentence examples for could barely tolerate from inspiring English sources
A control freak, Robbins could barely tolerate the collaborative demands of Broadway, let alone those of moviemaking.
Inside the domain of pain, I could barely tolerate a kind aide who would haul me out of bed for a sponge bath in a chair.
He was fond of saying "Children should be seen and not heard," but there were indications that he could barely tolerate the sight of children, either.
More than two decades after his dispute with Roche, meanwhile, Visentini could barely tolerate hearing the Irishman's name spoken in his presence.
But they didn't impress Larkin, who reviewed jazz records from 1961 to 1971 for The Daily Telegraph and could barely tolerate even Coltrane's most accessible late music, like the devotional suite "A Love Supreme".
More than a thousand delicious pages of uncharitable observations by the author of "Lucky Jim" and many other fine surly novels, a womanizer who did not like women and a writer who could barely tolerate books; his letters to Philip Larkin are particularly funny, despite the absence of Larkin's letters to him.
The kid could barely stand.
It can barely tolerate a hot mug of coffee.
