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How to use intolerance in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Intolerance means the state of being intolerant. Example: “Religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.”

Examples of intolerance by meaning

nounThe state of being intolerant.

  • Religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.
  • By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

More sentences with intolerance

  • We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.From the entry inclusivist
  • Etatism is inherently oppressive and expansionist, breeding monism, intolerance, and hostility.From the entry etatism
  • Lactose intolerance is common among people of Asian heritage.From the entry among
  • We are going to force out intolerance.From the entry force out
  • But there is another America, too—an America of herdthink, of intolerance.1993, Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry herdthink
  • It is necessary to confront together the populist discourses of intolerance, xenophobia, and aporophobia, which is hatred of the poor.2021, Pope Francis, Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements. From the entry aporophobia
  • One of the darkest aspects of Myanmar’s political transition is a surge in religious intolerance, especially toward Muslims.2014 June 6, Min Zin, “The People vs. The Monks”, in The New York Times. From the entry lift the lid
  • We must always fight intolerance and fanaticism.1994 May 25, [Karen] Shepherd, “Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1995”, in Congressional…. From the entry happily ever after
  • This emphasizes that spongiousness has primarily biomechanical reasons and cannot be traced back to material intolerance due to the cement.1994, Mário A. Barbosa, A. Campilho, Imaging Techniques in Biomaterials, page 338. From the entry spongiousness
  • However there can be a very high level of intolerance for Bi's who identify bi as opposed to gay.1992 March 25, Iseult White, “Re: De-muffining, me too!”, in soc.bi (Usenet). From the entry biness
  • However, overt hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia and glucose intolerance, hallmarks of the MetS, were outcomes observed in orchiectomised rats challenged with the obesogenic diet.2015 September 15, “Impact of Diet-Induced Obesity and Testosterone Deficiency on the Cardiovascular System: A Novel Rodent Model…. From the entry orchiectomised
  • If genocide and, hence, the Holocaust in particular, are to be better understood, then the roots of annihilationism—the origins of ultra-extreme intolerance—need to be explored.2014, Linda S Katz, The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference, Routledge, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry annihilationism
  • Every time freedom has failed in Europe, it is to that tradition - of violent repression, totalitarianism, xenophobia, and intolerance - that Europeans have reverted.2004 December 15, Emanuele Ottolenghi, “Illiberal Europe”, in The Jerusalem Post, →ISSN. From the entry illiberal
  • He is unusual in that his intolerance and his pureness of vision haven’t made him into boot-boy, a Tory or a fascist.1994, Nicola Barker, chapter 5, in Reversed Forecast, London: Fourth Estate, published 2011, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry peacelessly
  • Bradyarrhythmias may be associated with symptoms such as dizziness, near-syncope or syncope, congestive heart failure, exercise intolerance, fatigue, or a confusion that improves with resolution of the bradycardia.2012, Eyal Herzog, The Cardiac Care Unit Survival Guide, page 155. From the entry bradyarrhythmia
  • After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began.2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 158. From the entry dunnart
  • Intolerance toward the nonfaddist serves to bring more people into the fad and to protect the member from seeing his behavior through the eyes of nonfaddists.1972, Ralph H. Turner, Lewis M. Killian, Collective Behavior, page 134. From the entry nonfaddist
  • This narrow habitat niche for seabeach amaranth is bounded by its relative intolerance of flooding in lower beach settings and competition with other plants in upper beach and dune settings.2010 November, “Appendix C: Concern Response Report [NPS Response to Comments on the Draft Plan/EIS]”, in Cape Hatteras National Seashore…. From the entry amaranth

Meaning of intolerance

  1. noun The state of being intolerant.
  2. noun Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it.

Full definition of intolerance

Questions about intolerance in a sentence

How do you use intolerance in a sentence?
Intolerance is used as a noun. For example: “Religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.”
What is a short sentence with intolerance?
“We are going to force out intolerance.”
What does intolerance mean?
Intolerance means the state of being intolerant.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intolerance (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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