be lenient
Example Sentences
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When the team goal is in sight, players sometimes urge Penn to be lenient on the more objective categories like out-of-area rebounding or 50-50 balls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Kay’s middle child, 20-year-old Carter, said during the sentencing hearing that his father “wouldn’t do something bad willingly” and urged the judge to be lenient.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2022
In the case of Mr. Oudomsine, the Pokemon card purchaser, his lawyers argued in March that a judge should be lenient in deciding his sentence because the fraud had taken hardly any time at all.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
She appealed to the authoritarian Belarusian leader to be lenient and to offer her the opportunity "to be useful to society and be close to her mom and dad".
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2022
But my mother would tell me that people are flawed and I should be lenient with them.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
