Example Sentences

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The rest of us would like to live tolerantly in some form or fashion without using nuclear ordnance on each other.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026

"It's our belief that through artistic endeavour we will see each other more truthfully and more tolerantly," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

We hope to judge openly, honorably, tolerantly, but we have to judge.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2018

Lydia Lopokova horrified the Bloomsbury group by marrying the economist John Maynard Keynes, whom they had tolerantly understood to be gay.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010

Tanin, however, smiled tolerantly at their jokes—she liked to consider herself above such petty emotions.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee