How to Use tolerance in a Sentence

tolerance

noun

• The plants have a high tolerance for heat.
• Some patients gradually develop a tolerance for the drug and need to be given a larger dose.
• Some patients develop greater tolerance for the drug's effects.
• That’s why, in the best of times, tolerance for risky vaccines is very low.
  — oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2021
• The exact amount of hot sauce will depend on the type of hot sauce and your spicy tolerance.
  — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• Users built up a tolerance to the drugs and needed more and more to dull their pain — or achieve their high.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2023
• Its tolerance level for threats is low—and so is that of the United States.
  — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
• There is no other country in the world with the mixing of races and tolerance.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 22 June 2020
• The higher the dollar amount the less tolerance there is for bad stretches or off nights.
  — Scott Bordow, azcentral, 9 July 2018
• The yeast in ales has a higher tolerance for alcohol than the yeast used in lagers.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 7 Apr. 2018
• So for one day, at least, Del Mar will be an oasis of pot-tolerance.
  — Sebastian Montes, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 5 May 2017
• Heat tolerance, though, isn’t the only thing corals need.
  — Nicola Jones, Wired, 6 Nov. 2021
• With all of that comes the burden of tolerance, the fiery fight for fairness and – sometimes – a longing for more.
  — Liza Lentini, Spin, 14 Sep. 2023
• And the broader trends in Africa are heading in the direction of tolerance.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Readers have also evolved in their tastes and, frankly, in their tolerance for adult themes.
  — Denise Davidson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2018
• Ye found the limits of this new Twitter’s tolerance, though.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2022
• To be sure, a tolerance for some motor noise is required with most e-bikes.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2019
• The first step is to raise your tolerance to insect and disease damage.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 May 2018
• These young trees have all been propagated from the shoots of trees that showed some signs of tolerance.
  — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
• Like corals do in reef ecosystems, the organisms of the open ocean have certain tolerances for heat.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• Spice tolerance can take years to develop, for kids and adults.
  — Lara Lee, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2024
• The show has been a marvel of that — constructive tolerance.
  — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• For new kratom users or those with low tolerance, start with a low dose, usually 1-2 grams.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Just keep in mind that people vary in their tolerance to caffeine.
  — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 16 Apr. 2020
• Her coach, Jon Green, says her pain tolerance is almost too high.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2022
• The district has no tolerance for adults who harm or fail to protect students.
  — Essence, 14 June 2019
• There may have been more tolerance for top-down leadership a decade ago, says Gist.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 18 Nov. 2020
• There has to be zero tolerance of any such behavior in any walk of life.
  — Yohana Desta, vanityfair.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Kava has a reverse tolerance, so first-timers need to drink more to feel its effects.
  — Rachelle Robinett, Bon Appetit, 3 Apr. 2017
• The use of racial slurs quickly surged in an apparent test of his tolerance level.
  — Alexandra Olson and Maryclaire Dale, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 2 May 2024