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Example sentences for "tolerant"

Lexicographically close words:
toled; tolerable; tolerably; tolerance; tolerances; tolerantly; tolerare; tolerate; tolerated; tolerates
  1. It was nothing to her that the kindness took the form of tolerant patronage; she was used to that.

  2. What a little thing you are,' cried Fanny, half tolerant and half impatient, 'for anticipating one!

  3. The ambassador, Haidar Effendi, a particularly high-minded man and extremely tolerant in matters of religion, was quite upset about it.

  4. But--" Sally's voice failed her entirely, and he laughed a tolerant little laugh as he bent forward to explain.

  5. She wondered idly about him, in an odd humour of tolerant superiority, as one might contemplate the presumption of an ill-bred child.

  6. The family priest, an old, tolerant Sarsut Brahmin, dropped in later, and naturally started a theological argument to impress the family.

  7. Compared with most other kinds of North American snakes, the racer is remarkably tolerant of heat, and often is several degrees warmer than the level that those of other genera will normally tolerate.

  8. They are tolerant of a wide range of environmental temperatures, but the higher the temperature the more rapidly incubation proceeds.

  9. March held that some thing of the catholic character of these relations expressed itself in the generous and tolerant variety of the dinner, which was singularly abundant for fifty cents, without wine.

  10. It seemed to have come to them there, and he fancied in the statued saint that looked down from its facade something not so much tolerant as tolerated, something propitiatory, almost deprecatory.

  11. They had grown practically tolerant of each other's disagreeable traits; and the danger that really threatened them was that they should grow too well satisfied with themselves, if not with each other.

  12. He will adhere to his own belief, and be tolerant towards his neighbour's: since the two only differ as do two different refractions of a single ray of light.

  13. Free from the constraint of the chapel, he takes a more tolerant view of what he has seen and heard there.

  14. Roger Pettingdale has ever been a wise and a tolerant father, studying well the nature of each of his children.

  15. We ought," says the author of Ecce Homo, "to be just as tolerant of an imperfect creed as we are of an imperfect practice.

  16. It is hard to be tolerant of intolerant people; to see how natural their intolerance is, and in fact thoroughly to comprehend it and feel for it.

  17. Nero is sensitive to poetry and music, but not to human suffering: Marcus Aurelius is tolerant and good to all men but Christians.

  18. For a man who has been rigidly good to be supremely tolerant would require an amount of insight which seems to belong only to the greatest genius.

  19. The place was well known to tolerant and intellectual society.

  20. Their connection, formerly a guilty one, for the advocate had wife and children of his own, had in course of time, since he had been left a widower, become one of those liaisons which tolerant people excuse and except.

  21. Let us then work with all possible rapidity to relax from contractions of unwillingness, and become tolerant as a matter of course.

  22. WHEN we are tolerant as a matter of course, the nervous system is relieved of almost the worst form of persistent irritation it could have.

  23. Do you know whom I find the most tolerant churchman of that time?

  24. It is possible that I am very tolerant in my religious opinions.

  25. I think it is possible to be tolerant without being indifferent to one's own opinions.

  26. Since 1793 Roman Catholic electors had the parliamentary vote; but, since no Roman Catholic could sit in Parliament, they had hitherto been content to cast their votes for the more tolerant of the Protestant candidates.

  27. He was tolerant towards those who differed from him in opinion: he steadily believed the best of other men in passing judgement on them.

  28. And how amusing it is to watch the course of human affairs with tolerant acquiescence!

  29. What place have those who fret not themselves because of evildoers--what place in their tolerant society have they for uncouth personalities, terrible with indignation?

  30. But the taunt did not alter the tolerant smile on the Duke's face.

  31. Thornton did not lose his amiability--his tolerant yet irritating good-humor.

  32. Her face softened with sympathetic and tolerant understanding, but she asked no questions, made no comment.

  33. My mother regarded me with a tolerant smile.

  34. Angela smiled a little amusedly-tolerant smile as she looked frankly at her father and answered: "This is exactly the old-fashioned tone we English take to anything we don't understand.

  35. He gave her a form of tolerant affection.

  36. On the rare occasions when they are permitted to enter the august presence of their parents, they are often treated with a combination of tolerant affection and imperial severity.

  37. The lad then awoke and told who had slain him, and who had removed his heart, with the object of accusing the poor Jews.

  38. Laila, who was travelling in a litter, cried, By God!

  39. And now the leopard interlude nears it close.

  40. The hotel is crammed up to the mansarde," said good-natured Lord Hartledon, who was easily pleased, and rather tolerant of neglect in French hotels.

  41. She had grown tolerant in regard to the intimacy with Mr. Carr.

  42. Indeed, the solitariness of their lives, and the utter self-dependence which this forced upon them, made them none too tolerant of law in any form.

  43. So we know to-day and better understand this great reformer, whose devotion to human rights has made men tolerant of his grave personal shortcomings.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tolerant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepting; accommodating; advanced; agreeable; attentive; benevolent; broad; charitable; compassionate; complaisant; conciliatory; consenting; considerate; delicate; disciplined; easy; easygoing; enduring; equitable; forbearing; forgiving; freethinking; generous; gentle; heedful; helpful; hospitable; humane; indulgent; kind; latitudinarian; lax; lenient; liberal; libertarian; libertine; magnanimous; meek; merciful; mild; mindful; moderate; obliging; passive; patient; permissive; persevering; philosophical; radical; regardful; soft; solicitous; sparing; suffering; tactful; tender; thoughtful; tolerant; understanding; wide