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How To Use tolerably In A Sentence

• Already the banks of the St. Lawrence below Quebec were laid out in seigniories, and the farms were tolerably well cultivated. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
• a child with intolerably cute mannerisms
• They were tolerably happy together, as marriages seem to go, a happiness achieved partly by agreeing to differ.
• For my own part, I have to say that I find the idea tolerably convincing. Who is John Twelve Hawks?
• Add to this a kind of adhesiveness (we can hardly call it obstinacy or pertinacity) of temper, which can make no allowance for change of circumstances, and we think we have a tolerably clear notion of the causes of General McClellan's disasters. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
• For the last few days, the weather had been tolerably cool, and we had not been much troubled with musquitoes; instead, however, we were persecuted severely by a very large greyish kind of horsefly, with a huge proboscis for sucking up the blood. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
• Bluntly stated, the historical record of tolerably accurate strategic futurology is anything but impressive.
• M to day after haveing disposed of their roots and berries for a fiew fishing hooks and Some other Small articles. we are infestd. with Sworms of flees already in our new habatations; the presumption is therefore Strong that we Shall not devest our Selves of this intolerably troublesom vermin dureing our residence here. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
• At night, the temperatures dropped almost intolerably low.
• The days of an abundant supply of semi-skilled, tolerably well-paid jobs are over. Times, Sunday Times