How to Use tolerate in a Sentence

tolerate

verb

• I can't tolerate that noise.
• These plants tolerate drought well.
• How can you tolerate such laziness?
• I don't like my boss, but I tolerate him.
• Our teacher will not tolerate bad grammar.
• Racist or sexist behavior will not be tolerated.
• The government cannot tolerate lawlessness.
• That’s low light, and a few plants tolerate it—but none thrive in it.
  — Alicia Andrzejewski, Outside Online, 15 Apr. 2022
• But that’s the kind of thing that Joe Biden and Democrats are tolerating.
  — ABC News, 5 May 2024
• On the other side of the coin, men with a more oily scalp may only be able to tolerate it once a week.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• Young children should not be left alone, and the youngest can’t tolerate masks.
  — Liz Szabo, NBC News, 17 May 2022
• Cyrano cannot tolerate the actor’s butchering of the text and drives him off the stage with his sword.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• Even people who hate cilantro may be able to learn to at least tolerate it, if not like it.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
• The trait has been found to help cattle tolerate hot weather.
  — WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
• In such a scenario, the party would have to tolerate the loss of some of its traditional seats in the south.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• How much fog, rain or solar glare can a drone tolerate?
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• Steve Lacy will not tolerate having things thrown at him on stage.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
• This is not someone whom the Kim Wexler at the start of the series would tolerate, let alone recognize.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2022
• If your body tolerates the product well, increase the usage to one to two times per week.
  — Tatiana Velasco, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2023
• Most sharks can only tolerate saltwater, but this one is at home in rivers as well as the ocean.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• When prices are known upfront, no consumer will tolerate paying 10 times more than the patient in the bed next to them for the same care.
  — Cynthia A. Fisher, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
• Standing on the launchpad, parts of the rocket can tolerate sustained winds up to 74 knots.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2022
• The Canfield Fair said in a statement Sunday that the board would not tolerate such conduct.
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2022
• The venue will tolerate a good deal of cliche and corniness and obviousness.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• Viking said the drug was well tolerated by participants in the study.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• August is the month that separates the people who love the summer months from those who tolerate them.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2022
• Some of the changes seemed likely to affect the body’s ability to tolerate glucose.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
• The Air Force can’t tolerate any delays in its replacement plan.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• These plants and animals don’t typically tolerate much in the way of human impact but are still found in undisturbed areas of the state.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
• In worst-case scenarios, pain can cause a dog to be more irritable and aggressive, like if a human had a severe headache and couldn't tolerate social interaction, Enomoto said.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024