Use of lenient in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include lenient at the start of sentence, lenient at the end of sentence and lenient in the middle of sentence

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lenient at the end of sentence


  1. I hope the judge will be lenient.
  2. In your case, we are prepared to be lenient.
  3. The judge agreed that it was unduly lenient.
  4. The sentence was criticized as being unduly lenient.
  5. In the view of the Court the sentence was too lenient.
  6. The appeal judge agreed that the original sentence was unduly lenient.

lenient in the middle of sentence


  1. The judge was lenient with him.
  2. People say she was lenient with me.
  3. His parents are too lenient with him.
  4. The judge was far too lenient with him.
  5. He was given a comparatively lenient fine.
  6. They are too lenient: that makes it flattering.
  7. Your father's too lenient to people like Tommaso.
  8. to be severe with oneself and lenient with others.
  9. Federal agencies are more lenient that in the past.
  10. Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.
  11. As a first offender, he received a lenient sentence.
  12. Ian Dobkin, defending, asked for a lenient sentence.
  13. The police are sometimes more lenient with female offenders.
  14. This would be reflected in a more lenient sentence of 30 months.
  15. They believe that judges are too lenient with terrorist suspects.
  16. He will press for stricter, not more lenient, pollution controls.
  17. He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.
  18. School examiners say that marking has become more lenient in recent years.
  19. Imposing a lenient sentence for such a serious crime sets a dangerous precedent.
  20. There is little evidence that harsher punishments deter any better than more lenient ones.
  21. It's a question of finding the mean between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.
  22. Hanging would seem quite a lenient sentence considering the enormity of his crime in those harsh old days.
  23. On March 26 the prosecutors appealed to the Supreme Court because of what they considered the excessively lenient judgments.

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