Example sentences for: leeway

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

  • Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as "casuistry" in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior.

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

  • 2) Ask the appropriate person in your husband's company if you might have the leeway of choosing your own caterer.

  • 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.

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


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