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Six example sentences with lenient, each labelled with its topic.
The sentence was unusually lenient, community service and a fine, where the guidelines pointed toward eighteen months.
Law
The easy difficulty is lenient about mistakes, restoring your health bar whenever you stand still for a moment.
Gaming
Parents who are lenient about bedtime but firm about homework confuse children less than researchers once assumed.
Psychology
The referees were lenient all night, letting hand checks go that would have been fouls in the playoffs.
Basketball
The bank's lenient repayment terms let the bakery skip two installments after the flood without any penalty.
Finance
The customs officer was lenient about our overweight bags, waving us through with a warning instead of a fee.
Travel
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