Tolerably in example sentence

I was not now at Redriff, where, if I had set myself tolerably up, some honest sea captain or other might have talked with me upon the honourable terms of matrimony; but I was at the Bath, where men find a mistress sometimes, but very rarely look for a wife; and consequently all the particular acquaintances a woman can expect to make there must have some tendency that way.

More example sentences with word tolerably

So I took a bargain that I'd later see in a prison, a Stasi prison in Berlin, on a sign that read, "He who adapts can live tolerably."

My main contention with the plot is that while it remains tolerably consistent, they never explain a lot of the things behind the characters.

This comedy has some tolerably funny stuff in it, surrounded by a lot of unfunny stuff.

Suffice it to say that this substandard B has nothing to save it - not an interesting plot or even one tolerably decent actor.

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