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
• Many of our policies are more stringent than law.
  — Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 Sep. 2025
• Cars face more stringent standards than trucks.
  — David Shepardson, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
• But biscuits aren’t that stringent.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Feb. 2026
• Cities are allowed to pass rules more stringent than the county’s.
  — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2021
• Council members, at the time, viewed the plan as too stringent and passed on the fines.
  — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 29 June 2023
• Hock is way too stringent and hard-nosed to work with pie-in-the-sky companies.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
• The prison sentences were stringent, in some cases up to 25 years.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• And since 2002, the law has changed and become more stringent.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2022
• The city’s reuse standards for breweries are even more stringent than the state’s.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2021
• This helps ensure that the product meets stringent standards.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• That said, the empath’s best friend is having stringent boundaries.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
• Today very few stocks meet these stringent criteria.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 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
• Mexico, meanwhile, has just one gun store in the country and stringent firearms laws.
  — Melissa Quinn may 9, CBS News, 9 May 2025
• New York hasn't passed any law with such stringent minimum penalties.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• The companies contend the lower court used too stringent a test.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 11 Jan. 2026
• But many states have more stringent rules, and regulations vary widely.
  — Sarah Raza, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• Congress ignored Ford’s dire warning and passed the stringent cuts.
  — Ann E. Carlson, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
• 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
• The high court in other cases has allowed vaccine mandates that are more stringent.
  — CBS News, 17 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• At the core of the dispute was how stringent a First Amendment test to apply.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 6 Oct. 2025
• Sistine, 25, revealed how stringent her father’s rules used to be.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
• 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 qualifications for the third debate were more stringent than the first two.
  — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Such machines are subject to rules and safety requirements that are less stringent than those for full-sized cars.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2024
• Scholz claimed these stringent rules were often more transparent and predictable than elsewhere in the world.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023