Example sentences for: leeway

How can you use “leeway” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa will also be able to negotiate with Beijing for a degree of administrative leeway unthinkable for his counterparts on the mainland.

  • How much leeway a comic strip can sustain, how far afield it can stretch and stray is always a delicate balance guided by the intuition of the cartoonist.

  • In criminal procedure, Rehnquist's decisions have weakened the Miranda rights, nibbled away at the exclusionary rule, and granted cops more leeway to conduct warrantless searches.

  • Moreover, the new law, for all its seeming toughness, allows states plenty of leeway if they want to be generous.

  • "We don't have much leeway around that 'one or two drinks a day,' " he said, and what isn't known is whether encouraging moderate drinking will also encourage excessive drinking.


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