Tolerably

//ˈtɑləɹəbli//

"Tolerably" in a Sentence (8 examples)

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged.

Near the coast, onshore breezes keep even hot days tolerably cool.

My improvisations are tolerably good.

I learned this language primarily by memorizing lists of words, and this approach worked tolerably well. However, when I learned that language, prioritizing memorizing individual words over learning its grammar or reading whole sentences didn't help me at all. Even knowing all the words, I couldn't understand anything because the word order was very different.

The task, although rather arduous, was not displeasing to me, for a residence of several years in Egypt had rendered me tolerably proficient in the Arabic language and colloquial dialect, and my prior travels in various parts of the Sudan had made me familiar with the habits of the natives, besides procuring me the acquaintance of many merchants from the more distant provinces.

I don't like the music, but it's tolerably quiet.

With a small knife or larding pin, cut holes in the beef, to receive the bacon thus prepared; place the lardings tolerably thick and even; rub the beef over with the remainder of the seasoning […]

At least, he may claim that we should bring to him a tolerably patient and receptive mind, not a repelling, refusive mind; in a word, that we should treat him with decency, if we profess to attend to him at all.

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