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.

  • We mention here that there is some leeway to modify your goals once original studies are reviewed, since only then will you know the extent of the data and which variables, other than the primary effect, have been measured.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Argentina came very close to financial collapse in 1995 when it turned out that the convertibility law left no leeway to rush cash to troubled banks.


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