Example sentences for: leeway

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

  • Consider Frank McCourt, who has become a spokesman for the now-controversial view that teachers should have more leeway in the classroom, not less.

  • For example, W shows for leeway the date 1669; from my experience with even above-average users, that is usually taken to mean that 1669 was the first time that leeway appeared in English: one day it did not exist; the next, Presto!

  • Depending on the state in which the murder was committed, the court might have some leeway in reducing Libby's sentence.

  • Clearly, they should--if not by the Supreme Court, then by the legislative branch, which (rightly) has a bit more leeway to decide how to achieve social justice.

  • 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.


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