tolerably

Example Sentences

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I’m less convinced that “Avatar: The Last Airbender” can tolerably infuse its scripts more of the joyful lunacy that came naturally to the original without turning away the unconvinced.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2024

You know from experience that a tolerably cold or hot stimulus can quickly progress to a much more intense stimulus that is no longer tolerable.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

On a tolerably warm Sunday afternoon, I sat in bliss as a butterfly joined the cast of this outdoor production, tracing parabolas of enchantment as though a new member of Titania’s fairy train.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2021

“If I learned from Cincinnati that the wires to St. Louis were interrupted by rain,” one operator was recorded as saying, “I was tolerably sure a ‘northeast’ storm was approaching.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019

All went tolerably well until, in the last scene of the third act, Capulet and I^adv Capulet began to bully Juliet to marry Paris.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley