be lenient

Example Sentences

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If referees are going to be lenient in the opening exchanges, and I detect more officials are giving players a little latitude, it should not be for deliberate or premeditated offences.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2024

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

Lebanon's banking association urged authorities on Thursday to hold accountable those engaging in "verbal and physical attacks" on banks and said lenders themselves would not be lenient.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 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

The judges of the dead wouldn’t be lenient to her a second time.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan