How to Use intolerance in a Sentence
intolerance
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No one said the fight against intolerance would be easy.
—David French, National Review, 20 Aug. 2019
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And one thing is clear: Each side blames that loss on the other’s intolerance.
—BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
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There are lessons that can be learned from the region, from Beirut, about rolling back the anger, the rage, the intolerance, and finding the center again.
—Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2020
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Their intolerance did have some perks, as they were brought out some ice cream to cool off.
—Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024
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Yet in the past few years, religious intolerance has been on the rise.
—The Economist, 20 Sep. 2019
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Yep, there was lactose intolerance back in the very old days.
—Caron Golden, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
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This can help pinpoint whether a food intolerance is to blame.
—Women's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
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No, this massacre was a function of hate—the kind of toxic intolerance in its purest form.
—TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
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The United States won the Cold War, of course—a result that might seem to vindicate this intolerance.
—Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
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What does someone with gluten or lactose intolerance do when the bread rolls or ice cream comes out?
—Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021
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But banning books is not just the product of right-wing intolerance.
—Jay Parini, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
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The action, which targeted the home of Jake Nolan and his partner, Jon, was meant to send a message of hate and intolerance.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
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The shaming may not end anytime soon, given the intolerance of the modern left.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 3 May 2021
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The rise of intolerance always leads right to anti-Semitism.
—Emily Burack, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
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Our son Jack was born in 2013 with severe intolerance to dairy.
—Yola Robert, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
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Even right from the beginning, the film does not hide from ugly truths of intolerance and bigotry.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 1 May 2019
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Cameron further claimed that the comments showed her intolerance and hypocrisy.
—Elizabeth Joseph and Eric Levenson, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
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Take a look at where intolerance has brought us as a country today.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
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But Japan also has some of the most restrictive cannabis laws in East Asia, a region known for its intolerance of drugs.
—New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
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The answer is lactose intolerance — yes, cats can have it too.
—Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022
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Hydrolyzed whey protein is the best of these three for those with lactose intolerance.
—Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
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But what ties the three together is the theme of racial intolerance, and the idea that those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.
—Steve Chagollan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
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One is simply to tolerate your friends’ intolerance — though my sense is that this won’t work for you.
—New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
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Loach, to his credit, stages the intolerance of the pub crowd with humanity.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 May 2023
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Loose, watery stools may be a side effect of certain medicines or a food intolerance.
—Amanda Gardner, Health, 12 Aug. 2023
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It is driven by a intolerance that the White House is fomenting.
—Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2018
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And what the Plain View Project has also done is confirm our worst fears that intolerance at the keyboard appears to be linked to injustice out in the streets.
—Will Bunch, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
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In some ways, the ostracism seems like what she’s wanted, living proof of her thesis on the left’s growing intolerance.
—Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
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While there, he's met with intolerance and brutality by the local sheriff, Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), and his deputies.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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The point of his speech was basically that there is an erosion in free speech and intolerance for opposing points of view within Europe, and that's of concern, because that is eroding.
—CBS News, 16 Feb. 2025
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