How to Use stringent in a Sentence

stringent

adjective
  • Council members, at the time, viewed the plan as too stringent and passed on the fines.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
  • The prison sentences were stringent, in some cases up to 25 years.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The coronavirus, and China’s stringent efforts to stop it, thrust the question to the front of her mind.
    New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • 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
  • Without those things, there's no reason for the NFL to take more stringent measures.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • 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
  • The qualifications for the third debate were more stringent than the first two.
    Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • SpaceX was the worst of the bunch, with a 15% drop, which the researchers chalk up to its uniquely stringent requirement: Five days a week in-person.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • In places with less stringent dress codes, Kim tells me that her young friends will simply wear their Vejas around the office, for the full day.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
  • This is far more stringent than the NCAA’s previous stance adopted in 2022.
    Amanda Davies, Aleks Klosok and George Ramsay, CNN, 18 Feb. 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
  • This helps ensure that the product meets stringent standards.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Styles are now less stringent, which is totally my vibe.
    Sebastien Laforest, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 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 likes of Germany and the US have much more stringent regulations—the flammable cladding used in Grenfell was already banned in both countries.
    Alex Christian, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The rules governing such balance sheet moves are stringent.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And even more still will have sparkling something or other and call it Champagne, against some pretty stringent rules.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • The more stringent the policy, the more it’s been met with resistance from employees.
    Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 4 May 2022
  • Scholz claimed these stringent rules were often more transparent and predictable than elsewhere in the world.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Sistine, 25, revealed how stringent her father’s rules used to be.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This is in contrast to the data protection laws of China and the European Union which are deemed too stringent.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The stringent measures are exacting a heavy toll on the economy.
    New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Plants that expect to retire by 2039 would face a less stringent standard but still would have to capture some emissions.
    Chris Carlson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • But making the requirements more stringent affects the credit prices in the LCFS, which then ripples down to the price of fuels such as gasoline.
    Rob Nikolewski, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The rules guiding the hundreds of cult devotees were both liberating and stringent.
    Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • To a certain extent, that’s true, although there can be quite stringent rules depending on the country.
    Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • In private preschools and day-care centers, the more stringent rules also apply to children over the age of two and to educators.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In the most stringent clampdowns, governments in Australia and New Zealand barred the entry of noncitizens and prevented some of their own citizens, including children and pregnant women, from returning home.
    Edward Alden, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Samuels’s role as vice-chair would soon go to a Republican commissioner, who would likely have a more stringent interpretation of what constituted discrimination or harassment.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2025

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