Example sentences for: lenient

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

  • Could scans showing diminished impulse control—a function controlled by several regions of the brain, including the striatum and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—be used to support more lenient sentencing, or even acquit a defendant, because he couldn't control his violent impulses?

  • 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.

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

  • 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."

  • If Prudie sounds lenient regarding divorcing, it is because she herself has lost more than one husband ...


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