tolerate
verb (used with object)
to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
were tolerating
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past progressiveof tolerate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“We were tolerating each other’s playing, but that became very hard,” DelGrosso says, adding that he just recently moved into a studio apartment, which he considers a certain marker of success considering the circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021
Lincoln, generations later, gave what was undoubtedly the true explanation of this shrinking from the name of the thing they were tolerating and even protecting.
From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
How often do we begin as if we were tolerating people telling vain stories, lest we offend the weak; then by degrees we take interest therein!
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
The right reverend prelate asserted that statesmen were tolerating a social organisation, destined one day to involve the empire in deep disgrace, and exhibit the awful spectacle of a nation of criminals!
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
The Wise Girl figured that they were tolerating her out of mere Politeness.
From People You Know by George Ade
