How to Use leeway in a Sentence

leeway

noun
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  • They give their students leeway to try new things.
  • There are lots of words to say very rapidly, and there’s no leeway.
    — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Tavares said in the memo the agency should not provide the same leeway agents had given before the fire.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Remains to be seen how much leeway Love gets at a time when young passers don’t tend to get a lot of slack.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
  • But the union is giving a lot less leeway to any future projects.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 25 July 2023
  • That would give them more leeway to charge higher fares.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, flying on the day before Christmas Eve, rather than on the 24th, gives you a bit of leeway.
    — CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But the Hoosiers have to give Carey some leeway to handle his new position his way.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Oct. 2022
  • There is also a lot of leeway in how to interpret the stated rules.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The Federal Reserve had a little leeway to sit this one out — and did.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
  • But Rost stressed that cities have a lot of leeway once those basic requirements are met.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Using only the plain text does not give that leeway, McClure said.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Having Hellberg enabled the Wings some leeway with Nedeljkovic, who has not played since Dec. 8.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2023
  • While preferring that the wiry wing jump off of two legs rather than one, Toreros coach Steve Lavin said Patton has earned some leeway on the court.
    — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Those jobs really can’t move, and so there’s more leeway to pay those people more.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But in the past, courts have often bent over backward to give an artist leeway in critique and parody.
    — Alexandra Peers/ Cnn Business, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Rolling is fast enough to get pieces to the sides on Level 29-speed boards stacked up to eight rows high, giving Tetris masters quite a bit of leeway in their quest for longer games.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Scottsdale adopted the subjective sound policy in 2010 as a way to give the city’s nightlife scene enough leeway to thrive.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The homespun pattern gives you leeway to keep the rest of your outfit simple (but still look put together).
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The defense created a long runway and a lot of leeway for Zappe and the offense, which produced just one touchdown and five Nick Folk field goals.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Instead, every one of the state’s 197 school districts is given the leeway to adopt its own core curriculum.
    — oregonlive, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Throughout his tenure, the station gave him leeway to tell in-depth stories on historic L.A. events such as the Watts Riots.
    — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • But Moayed, a daring actor, has less leeway with Torvald.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The natural resolution here, as Windhorst said, is to give the defense a bit of leeway.
    — Michael Sykes, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Market players quickly took advantage of the new leeway, driving the yield up to 0.395% by late Tuesday.
    — Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The law has prompted districts that once gave teachers some leeway over cellphone use in their classrooms to introduce stricter rules.
    — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • So doing it independently just gave us a lot more leeway to know that the film was gonna be ours and not misconstrued by someone else.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The added estrogen in combination pills provides a bit more leeway for missing a dose, Lee says.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 July 2023
  • The bills could also give attorneys more leeway to lobby for better rights and higher pay for U.S. prisoners, per the Post.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But another sign of Wallen’s privilege is that he’s granted that leeway.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023

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