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Example sentences for "tolerably large"

  • Spezia, on arrival, appeared beauteous, and, though a tolerably large town, quite rural after Genoa.

  • The church, a tolerably large one, was quite full, and no doubt many came from a considerable distance.

  • Fifty–nine is a tolerably large number, and will, in any view, afford constant employment to those who are of an exploring disposition.

  • The engine thus arranged was tried upon a tolerably large scale on the Neva, and by it a boat containing ten or twelve people was propelled at the rate of three miles an hour.

  • If a tolerably large specimen of this mineral is examined, there will be found usually two points where the iron filings are attracted in larger quantities than in other parts of the same specimen.

  • Figure to yourself a tolerably large room, lined from top to bottom with old walnut wainscoting browned to an almost black, with age.

  • One of the blacks entered the den by a narrow aperture; the other, aided by Djalma, cut down a tolerably large tree, to prepare a trap for one of the old tigers.

  • It was a tolerably large room, lighted by two windows, and simply but commodiously furnished.

  • He at length saw a tolerably large stone, which stood, in a slant position, up against one of the walls.

  • He ascended to the landing of the first story, and then, as he could have no choice, he opened the first door that his eyes fell upon, and entered a tolerably large apartment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tolerably large" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about his; bear testimony; countless numbers; each second; each will; evening parties; ever stepped; expelled from; fate would; four quarters; individual experience; longer doubted; orders from; people whom; pretty young; protectorate over; seems also; should really; small block; stood thus; telling him; tolerably good; tolerably large; tolerably well