How to Use stringent in a Sentence

stringent

adjective

• More than half the adults in states with the most stringent bans are in that group.
  — Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 25 July 2025
• And since 2002, the law has changed and become more stringent.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2022
• Council members, at the time, viewed the plan as too stringent and passed on the fines.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2023
• The prison sentences were stringent, in some cases up to 25 years.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Cities are allowed to pass rules more stringent than the county’s.
  — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2021
• The coronavirus, and China’s stringent efforts to stop it, thrust the question to the front of her mind.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• The city’s reuse standards for breweries are even more stringent than the state’s.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2021
• These higher rates come in the midst of a statewide push to tighten gun laws that are already among the most stringent in the country.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Without those things, there's no reason for the NFL to take more stringent measures.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• El Farolito is far from the only restaurant with Bay Area roots that’s come up against the city’s stringent rule.
  — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2021
• And the people who hoist the traps take pride in crafting their own stringent measures to protect the fishery.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2022
• The qualifications for the third debate were more stringent than the first two.
  — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• SpaceX was the worst of the bunch, with a 15% drop, which the researchers chalk up to its uniquely stringent requirement: Five days a week in-person.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 May 2024
• In places with less stringent dress codes, Kim tells me that her young friends will simply wear their Vejas around the office, for the full day.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
• This is far more stringent than the NCAA’s previous stance adopted in 2022.
  — Amanda Davies, Aleks Klosok and George Ramsay, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025
• The killings are also reigniting debate over whether Texas gun laws are stringent enough.
  — Jack Douglas, Tim Craig, Alex Horton, Hannah Allam and Brittany Shammas, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
• This helps ensure that the product meets stringent standards.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• Styles are now less stringent, which is totally my vibe.
  — Sebastien Laforest, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2024
• Alaska’s laws against oil and gas waste are typically viewed as among the most stringent in the country.
  — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2021
• Mexico, meanwhile, has just one gun store in the country and stringent firearms laws.
  — Melissa Quinn may 9, CBS News, 9 May 2025
• This city, storied and prideful, and this fanbase, once spoiled and stringent with its standards, know their worth.
  — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 18 July 2025
• Flora was used to Lorraine’s stringent disapproval and no longer tried to hide from it.
  — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
• The likes of Germany and the US have much more stringent regulations—the flammable cladding used in Grenfell was already banned in both countries.
  — Alex Christian, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
• The rules governing such balance sheet moves are stringent.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
• And even more still will have sparkling something or other and call it Champagne, against some pretty stringent rules.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• The more stringent the policy, the more it’s been met with resistance from employees.
  — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 4 May 2022
• Scholz claimed these stringent rules were often more transparent and predictable than elsewhere in the world.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• France already imposed a stringent set of restrictions as cases rose sharply in the country at the start of the summer due to the rise in delta prevalence.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2021
• However, LLMs are still really experimental, so they should be used with stringent oversight.
  — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 July 2025
• The board had balked at insurance lobbyists and fire officials’ demand for stringent protections while the governor’s office worried about the cost to homeowners, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg Green in a public records request.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025