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How to use tolerant in a sentence

31 example sentences · adjective, noun

Tolerant means tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something. Example: “He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.”

Examples of tolerant by meaning

adjectiveTending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.

  • He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.

adjectiveTending to withstand or survive.

  • These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.

More sentences with tolerant

  • You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.From the entry difference
  • Vermont is a tolerant, wealthy, almost Trudeauesque corner of the US.2018 December 1, David McWilliams, “Sanders is building a new political movement and could run again”, in Irish Times. From the entry Trudeauesque
  • There was something underneath her snappish belligerence that made him feel protective and tolerant.2011, Mary Doria Russell, Doc, Random House, published 2011, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry snappish
  • Sugar palm is tolerant of temperatures below freezing but is damaged at –2°C.2008, Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry sugar palm
  • Men, on the other hand, knowing their privileges safe in well-trained hands, can afford a tolerant attitude.2006, Lucy Delap, Maria DiCenzo, Leila Ryan, Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918. From the entry keep a dog and bark oneself
  • The subterraneity of tolerant thought still in the age of the Reformation.2000, Franz Rosenzweig, translated by Barbara E. Galli, “Lessing’s Nathan”, in Cultural Writings of Franz Rosenzweig (Library of Jewish…. From the entry subterraneity
  • The plant is drought tolerant and winter hardy, but is less tolerant of alkali soils.1989, Better Roads, volume 59, page 34. From the entry sideoats
  • The common people, however, seem to have been more tolerant of the Molly houses in their midst.1987, Gary William Kinsman, The Regulation of Desire: sexuality in Canada, page 41. From the entry molly house
  • Likewise, the ZZ plant (zamioculcas) is tolerant of a wide range of conditions, from searing sunlight to heavy shade.2017 November 19, James Wong, “Indestructible houseplants”, in The Guardian. From the entry ZZ plant
  • The term is not used in a derogatory sense, but rather in tolerant approbation as being of an independent persuasion.1997, David Paynter, Clive Upton and J.D.A. Widdowson, Yorkshire Words Today: a glossary of regional dialect, The Yorkshire Dialect…. From the entry pot o' one
  • Many varieties are available, and most seem to be more tolerant of sun and dry conditions than rhododendra.1995 April 26, “Re: Evergreens please”, in rec.gardens (Usenet), message-ID <3nkbpa$li3@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>. From the entry rhododendra
  • Children who learn to be gentle and tolerant with themselves grow up to be less stressed and more relaxed and selfsecure.1993, Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values. From the entry selfsecure
  • He counseled that physicians be tolerant and equanimitable when their favorite patient is found placing reliance on a notorious nostrum.1959 January, ““To Thine Own Self Be True””, in Shaler Richardson, editor, The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, volume XLV…. From the entry equanimitable
  • "My dear fellow, why do they go to Monte Carlo?" was the retort, accompanied by a tolerant shrug.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry Monte Carlo
  • He has become somebody, has a broader and more tolerant view of the one-time cartoon hayseed and the fat-cigared plutocrat.1923, Forbes, page 550. From the entry cigared
  • The boy, who had been regarding him with the tolerant curiousness one accords to the prattlings of the feeble-minded, answered promptly.1912, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Scarlet Plague, New York: Macmillan, published 1915, page 19. From the entry prattling
  • Cynolatry is tolerant so long as the dog is not denied an equal divinity with the deities of other faiths.1909, Ambrose Bierce, “The Dog in Ganegwag”, in The Land beyond the Blow. From the entry cynolatry
  • "Although we all speak different and use different grammar, we have to be more tolerant of each other," he told ABC Brisbane's Katrina Davidson.2016 June 15, ABC Premium News, Sydney. From the entry different
  • If the new residents, especially the most recent arrivals, are less tolerant of lower or working-class behavior, these tensions may become serious.2013, Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly, Gentrification, page 32. From the entry greenline
  • Introduced vegetation, such as Kona coffee plants, can be scorched, and downwind of Kiluea, only native species, tolerant of the natural acid rain, survive.2012, Joanne N. Feldman, Robert I. Tilling, “Volcanic Eruptions, Hazards, and Mitigation”, in Paul S[tuart] Auerbach, editor, Wilderness…. From the entry vog
  • It was feared that, even in tolerant but not omnitolerant Holland, his presence among them threatened the repute, or even safety, of the refugee community.1996, Emil L. Fackenheim, Raphael Jospe, Jewish Philosophy and the Academy, page 32. From the entry omnitolerant
  • The level of uncomfortability that Albert experiences in coming to terms with his past injustices slowly transforms him into a more reasonable and tolerant man.1982 December 4, Catherine Joseph, “Empowered into Enlightenment”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 14. From the entry uncomfortability
  • Tolerant queens keep their subordinate cofoundresses and develop a homeostatic colony that is productive in producing a large number of cells, many colony workers, and reproductives.2017, Henry R. Hermann, Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals. From the entry cofoundress
  • Sranan, perhaps because it was spoken on the plantations alongside Dutch, a pretty clusterful language, grew more tolerant of clusters and dropped the first epenthetic vowel.2008, Derek Bickerton, Bastard Tongues. From the entry clusterful
  • When I pointed out how incongruis it was to be so viamently opposed to Christianity and yet so tolerant towards her friend's beliefs, she went ballistic!2006 January 10, swampmidget, “Are You a "God-Hater"?”, in alt.religion.apologetics (Usenet), retrieved 22 Apr 2022. From the entry viamently
  • Polytheism was inherently tolerant of the worship of many gods, because no single god was thought to control all the phenomena that are vital for human life.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1017. From the entry pluralism
  • Just how firmly is clear right off, when, on the flight to Warren's third wedding, he meets a Hasidic couple and has tolerant counterculturish thoughts about them.1996 January 28, Jacqueline Carey, “A Cuckold in Crown Heights”, in The New York Times. From the entry counterculturish
  • Weaker (tolerant) quantificational values (some and many, sometimes and often) and stronger values (all, always) rule out any lower-clause reading for upstairs negation in the same contexts.1989, Laurence R. Horn, chapter 5, in A Natural History of Negation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 327. From the entry upstairs
  • I know they are supposed to be amusing, and you should be tolerant, but I wanted to swing on one, any one, anything to shatter that superior, simpering composure.1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. From the entry simpering

Meaning of tolerant

  1. adjective Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.
  2. adjective Tending to withstand or survive.
  3. noun One who or that which tolerates something, especially a biological species.

Full definition of tolerant

Questions about tolerant in a sentence

How do you use tolerant in a sentence?
Tolerant is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.”
What is a short sentence with tolerant?
“These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.”
What does tolerant mean?
Tolerant means tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.

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