How to Use lenience in a Sentence

lenience

noun

• But Jones' lawyers said their client has already learned his lesson, and asked for lenience.
  — Jim Vertuno, ajc, 5 Aug. 2022
• But Jones’ lawyers said their client has already learned his lesson, and asked for lenience.
  — Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
• When the apology tours and pleas for lenience begin in earnest, feel free to ignore them.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 4 Oct. 2017
• Arbery's parents and sister, who spoke before the sentences were handed down, asked the judge to show no lenience.
  — NBC News, 7 Jan. 2022
• Any shift in Fed policy would start from a position of unusual lenience.
  — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• But every franchise has its threshold for lenience and embarrassment, and two in the last six months reached theirs with Brown.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• One factor that could weigh against lenience was Smollett’s own testimony at trial.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• And when adjudicating this kind of accident, the courts tend to favor lenience.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026
• Experts say this level of lenience can lead to rebellion, risk-prone temperament, and unhealthy habits.
  — Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 29 Sep. 2024
• During the sentencing hearing, Arbery’s family had asked the judge to show no lenience.
  — Russ Bynum, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2022
• Caban’s lenience in the Lucas matter isn’t the first time the commissioner has let bad behavior slide.
  — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
• However, try to allow yourself lenience and grace under the maiden’s energy.
  — Meghan Ros, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2021
• His father, two brothers, a sister, his girlfriend and others wrote heartfelt letters pleading for lenience from the federal judge.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 25 May 2017
• Friends and family testified on Hafter’s behalf, urging lenience.
  — Philly.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Perhaps some degree of lenience is coming from the NCAA given the breadth of parties involved.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• Investors have interpreted the decision to hold an advisory committee meeting as a sign of new lenience.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 31 July 2026
• During the sentencing hearing, Arbery's family had asked the judge to show no lenience in deciding whether to grant an eventual chance at parole.
  — Russ Bynum, ajc, 7 Jan. 2022
• Outside the Republican Party, there isn’t a lot of lenience for men who abuse their privilege and authority.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2021
• Anger at the jury’s lenience swept through San Francisco, especially its gay community.
  — Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Critics have suggested the program led to lenience for Cruz, but the superintendent said Wednesday that the suspect was never was part of the program.
  — Kelli Kennedy, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
• Another defense lawyer, Edwin Choy, called for lenience before the sentencing, saying Ma's slogans and chants were empty words with no great impact.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
• Hence her love for coincidences, for tellingly significant names (of course, anyone named Hazzard must be granted lenience on this score), for referring to characters by their full names, for patterns.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2021
• Instead of continuing to disparage your empathic boss's personality, focus on the business issues created by her lenience.
  — Tribune News Service, OregonLive.com, 3 June 2017
• But other than a legitimate and insurmountable accessibility issue, Swanson says GitHub has no plans for lenience.
  — WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
• Despite greater lenience in state guidelines, which allowed a pair of major museums in Houston to reopen, Dallas County has advised against visiting museums and similar venues for now.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 26 June 2020
• Three co-defendants, all of whom were offered lenience by Bissell in exchange for cooperation, recanted their testimony incriminating Wright.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 7 Dec. 2020
• But after hearing of the rioters’ plight, Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, intervened on their behalf in a dramatic display of mercy, going onto her knees before her husband to beg for lenience.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• There’s a rich intellectual strain that argues that acts of civil disobedience, like tearing down statues that commemorate treasonous, white supremacist revolts against the United States government, deserve lenience.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2017
• Their presence in the Columbia, Willamette and other major rivers in recent years spawned federal legislation as Oregon and Washington succeeded in pushing for more lenience to kill more of the mammals to protect endangered fish.
  — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2020
• On Friday, Sessions rescinded two key Holder memos — one telling prosecutors to show lenience for low-level nonviolent drug offenders, and a second, from 2014, restricting the use of a law that toughened sentences for repeat offenders.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 13 May 2017