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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Federal Reserve has faced stringent criticism for missing signs the bank was at risk.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
• New York hasn't passed any law with such stringent minimum penalties.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• 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
• Before that, for nearly three years, there were stringent rules about leaving and entering the country.
  — Chadner Navarro, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2025
• After the committee's recommendations, the agency adopted more stringent limits in 2024–the first update to the rules in more than a decade.
  — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 29 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025