Example sentences for: probation

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

  • According to the EFL Gazette [June 1988], a judge in Birmingham, England, was outraged that a Pakistani, resident in Britain for 23 years, had the effrontery to be so ignorant of English as to need an interpreter in court; he sentenced the culprit to two years' probation with the condition that he learn the language.

  • Probation sanctions, he concludes, "are not rigorously enforced."

  • To reinvent probation, we will need to reinvest in it.

  • But about half do not comply with the terms of their probation.

  • In a national survey, probation officers admitted that their average urban caseloads were at least 25 percent higher than they should be.


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