How to Use tolerant in a Sentence

tolerant

adjective

• The plants are drought and heat tolerant and love full sun.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2022
• Nor is the strong-willed Lizzie any less tolerant of him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• How and When to Plant Coleus Coleus are not tolerant of frost at all.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2024
• Let shade-tolerant herbs like chervil grow wild along the edges.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 14 Apr. 2020
• But they are all inspired by the great free and tolerant nations of the West.
  — Abdi Nor Iftin, Time, 20 June 2018
• Most pines are very drought tolerant and thrive with fast drainage.
  — oregonlive, 5 July 2020
• Take the heat-tolerant Pineywood breed, one of the earliest dairy breeds to come to the United States with the Spaniards in the 1500s.
  — Linni Kral, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2017
• But making Hudson’s Bick both tough and tolerant was a bold stroke of the state’s ego.
  — Chris Vognar, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
• The goal is not to build a world where people are merely tolerant.
  — Cody Delistraty, Longreads, 5 July 2017
• The same is true of Kraft, who has expressed more tolerant views of player protests.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Hoch says wood ducks are so tolerant of humans that they can be tamed.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• Tepary beans, or bavi, are a drought-tolerant legume native to the Sonoran desert.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2021
• One of the more shade-tolerant St. Augustines could give good growth in these areas.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• This country is the most tolerant country in the history of the world, which is why so many around the world have come here.
  — baltimoresun.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• Over his career Bench threw out 43% of the risk-tolerant base runners who chose to test his arm.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 5 July 2018
• Even if a plant is tolerant some leaf loss and thinning of the foliage is sure to be noted.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
• Even drought tolerant trees need a long drink to survive.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025
• Even drought tolerant trees need a long drink to survive.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
• The stock is not low-risk, but risk-tolerant long-term investors may want to take a closer look at it.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2020
• The group with the traits more tolerant of CO2, such as clams and snails, largely survived the mass extinction.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
• Some plants are more drought tolerant than others and not all areas of the yard will have the same water needs.
  — Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024
• The nice thing about the rut is deer are way more tolerant of intrusions because their minds are tuned to love.
  — Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2020
• Gary is very hard to dislike and Ray is pretty tolerant of his mate.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 31 July 2019
• The Tesla board has gone along with that, but not all investors feel so tolerant.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• The cast iron is coated in a porcelain enamel, which is heat tolerant and leak-proof up to 500°F.
  — Daria Smith, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2021
• For a tolerant Berlin and an open-minded world, now and forevermore!
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 16 Oct. 2017
• All of the above except star jasmine are drought tolerant.
  — oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2023
• And for the most part, the city has chosen to replace them not with new palms but with native trees that are more drought-tolerant and shadier.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• The line borders on saccharine, and will probably make those less tolerant of sappiness cringe.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025
• After his death the day after Easter at age 88, Francis was hailed for pushing Catholics and others to forsake egotism and materialism in favor of a kinder, more tolerant world focused above all on the marginalized.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025