Example sentences for: lenient

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

  • ) The Post 's story focuses almost entirely on what it sees as the lenient consumer-privacy provisions in the bill.

  • (Pollard's perfervid supporters repeat these canards despite all evidence: Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told me that prosecutors "promised they would be very lenient on him ...

  • The New York Times attributes the increasing number of A plusses and the decrease in C's and D's to "lenient professors and students who badger them for higher grades."

  • An aggressive prosecutor offers to purchase that information with a lenient sentencing recommendation.

  • Gramm's picture promptly disappears, but its brief presence qualifies the ad for the more lenient federal rules about "candidate" spots: Such spots can't be censored, and the stations must sell the time at a lower "political" rate.


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