Used in a Sentence

tolerably

How to use tolerably in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for tolerably.

Editorial note

Well, 14" would be better for letter-sized documents, but 12" is tolerably close to right.

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Quick take

in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tolerably gathered in one view.

adverb

in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tolerably.

adverb

in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably"

Example sentences

1

Well, 14" would be better for letter-sized documents, but 12" is tolerably close to right.

2

Atom processor in my year old netbook handles scrolling and gmail easily, and flash tolerably. Is there not a chance that these things have improved?

3

I had to stop using linux since I switched to an ATI card that couldn't even tolerably work with Gnome 3. Free software proponents tend to be less level headed on the issue.

4

The remote control interfaces are tolerably intuitive. The problem is content.

5

And your centralized check-in/check-out needs, whatever scale they might be, are probably tolerably well served by one of the existing solutions.

6

> But it can often be tolerably handled with a row-level flag in the outer-database to handle "locking" the database if you are operating in a scanrio where that makes sense. You do that and you're just trading one race condition for another.

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Eating well means eating nutritionally complete, balanced, and tolerably palatable foods. When you maximize for the taste experience, without concern for nutritional completeness or balance, you are not eating well.

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I thought at the time that this looked like somebody's attempt to make newer data work tolerably with older revisions. That part WAS annoying, because the documentation didn't mention that, and it took about a week before somebody managed to create a photoshop file that was arranged this way.

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His comments are correctly punctuated, grammatical, at least tolerably respectful, etc. Though his map does not seem to correspond to the territory, in my eyes that alone doesn't merit downvotes.

10

The entire combined might of the 21st century computing industry has managed to make the dominant application platform provide a tolerably good application experience on a dual-core multi-gigahertz machine. Whoopee.

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But it can often be tolerably handled with a row-level flag in the outer-database to handle "locking" the database if you are operating in a scanrio where that makes sense. There are other scenarios where users simply aren't writing anything to the inner SQLite databases, but you are simply using it as a storage medium.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tolerably in a sentence?

Well, 14" would be better for letter-sized documents, but 12" is tolerably close to right.

What does tolerably mean?

in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably"

What part of speech is tolerably?

tolerably is commonly used as adverb.