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
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
The headmaster read through Caitlin's letter before agreeing to a month-long grace period: Things had gotten so bad that even the schools had to be lenient.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
