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How to use tolerably in a sentence

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Bluntly stated, the historical record of tolerably accurate strategic futurology is anything but impressive.
Still, his back was scabbed over, and the wound on his thigh was progressing tolerably well.
He seems tolerably well qualified to be writing about this sort of thing.
One colleague suggested that the existing regimes, for all their shortcomings and obvious inelegance, seemed to work tolerably well.
Parents thus choose appropriate classmates for their children, just as they choose a school that is tolerably effective.
This project cannot completely fail, because some tolerably good textbooks exist already.
If a spirit found himself tolerably happy in an average condition among errant spirits, could he prolong that state indefinitely?
At least there is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not.
Even landless labourers could manage tolerably well within this system.
But even today the public may too easily accept the idea that library assistants need only be persons of goodwill who are tolerably diligent and intelligent.
Despite the difficulties, the centres did appear to be achieving results, in terms of junior secondary passes, at modest costs that compared tolerably well with those of the conventional system.
So why on earth would we want to go from something that is working, I would suggest, not perfectly well but tolerably well, to something that is following a model that is clearly dysfunctional?
In recent years the South Bronx's main retail corridor had fewer vacancy signs than Madison Avenue. If the distortions caused by crippled data were constant over time, trend analysis might still be tolerably accurate.
Mr Bird won election after election and, allowing for such niceties as unlimited campaign money and with radio and television biased to the government, the ballots were tolerably free.
Having brought about a tolerably clean election, and ended a seven-year war, it is about to hand over Zimbabwe to a man who is the indisputable choice of most of his people.
We would have done tolerably well on the domestic market this past year had we not been forced to finance a massive costreduction strategy the year before.
He reportedly could sing tolerably well and was not afraid to do so before an audience.
Examples from Classical Literature
The pump room was tolerably full of people who came in the forenoon to talk.
The topgallant sail we cut in two diagonally, and thus treated it formed a tolerably serviceable leg-of-mutton sail.
The nave of the chapel is in tolerably good preservation, but the apsis has suffered severely from damp.
Skeletons are sometimes found, in tolerably perfect condition, after an inhumation of two hundred years.
Flukes are likewise tolerably abundant in the saurian and chelonian reptiles.
Thanks to their clannishness and pluck, they appear to be tolerably immune from attack.
Of Valentin Conrart a tolerably clear image can be formed by collating what the memoir-writers have recorded of him.
They are composed of coralline limestone, nowhere exceeding 200 feet above the sea, and are well wooded and tolerably fertile.
When they have learned their manual alphabet tolerably well, they are placed in the field to take a spell at cotton-picking.
I found that tartaric acid would precipitate the mud, leaving a jug of the water tolerably clear, but then the acid remained.
We passed along the tolerably high dam, while the scoria rolled regularly off the sides at our feet.
As soon as you find you can gradate tolerably with the pen, take an H. or hh.
We are tolerably familiar with Anglo-American writings on sexology, but we know nothing that equals Mrs. Dennett's brochure.
If, now, we add acetic acid, we discover also tolerably large nuclei with nucleoli.
Having thus obtained the power of laying on a tolerably flat tint, you must try to lay on a gradated one.
After he has had his coffee and some bananas or a slice of pomelo, and taken his bath, he feels tolerably alive.
A few springs of tolerably good water were found, from which they replenished their empty barrels.
It is built on the bank of a small river which runs from the Rhone, is a walled town, and has usually a tolerably strong garrison.
But I have seen many men, crowned and uncrowned, in the course of a tolerably long and varied journalistic career.
He is as erratic in his flight as a clay pigeon, though it is tolerably safe to assume that he will not jump backward.
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