tolerable

Example Sentences

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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

Unless ocean temperatures return to more tolerable levels, bleached corals are unable to recover and eventually die of starvation.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

One of these companies has a slightly more tolerable vision than the rest, although it’s fair to question whether any one of these ideals could ever vanquish the others.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2026

We are quite more tolerable when they start telling us the truth by agreeing with us.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

That’s where we stayed until the end of the war, and those trees stand in my memory for the turning of our life in camp, from the outrageous to the tolerable.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston