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

The time I spent in the store, getting familiar with the wares, was always the most tolerable part of my day.

From Literature

It’s far easier to sit in the boiling waters of despair until the heat becomes tolerable than it is to try to alter the temperature all on our own.

From Salon

That prospect for growth makes its valuation look tolerable.

From Barron's

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