tolerable

Example Sentences

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Not because spices make cheap food merely tolerable, but because they’re often the difference between a meal that feels like compromise and one you genuinely crave again a few days later.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

That was tolerable when officials thought the Iran war would resolve quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

She became the woman who, more than perhaps any one other person, made California’s air tolerable, if not technically healthy, and revved up the state’s climate and greenhouse gas policies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The applicant must be an adult, "have decision-making capacity", suffer from a serious or incurable illness, and "experience constant, unbearable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be relieved under conditions deemed tolerable".

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Any magic they used would only lead to less tolerable retribution if they failed.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull