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 | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2023
• The prison sentences were stringent, in some cases up to 25 years.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Federal Reserve has faced stringent criticism for missing signs the bank was at risk.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
• The cuts in the package are almost certainly both too modest to win the votes of hard-line conservatives and too stringent to win the votes of progressives in the House.
  — Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• The more stringent laws in those 25 states went into effect for different reasons.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• So, a birdie-or-better streak of 15 or more for anyone in the group would satisfy this stringent criterion, but one of 14 would not.
  — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the streets of major Chinese cities over the weekend, calling for an end to the stringent tests and lockdowns.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
• Instead, the majority applied a more stringent version of a clear-statement rule to achieve their goals.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 June 2023
• For three years, its stringent approach has kept Covid cases and deaths relatively low in the country.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
• His last effort came in August, with a judge denying his request to at least be released on stringent house arrest.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
• But Meta appears to still be figuring out how to launch in the bloc, given its stringent rules around data protection.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 6 July 2023
• Harris won the race, partly by avoiding being tagged as either too stringent or too lenient.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
• The antiabortion law DeSantis signed in 2023 is one of the most stringent in the nation and placed Florida in the forefront of Southern states hostile to women’s reproductive rights.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024