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How To Use extenuating In A Sentence

• I do think the extenuating circumstances mean that a transfer is necessary.
• He states that there were extenuating circumstances which justify the delay in filing the income tax returns.
• Unless there are extenuating circumstances , all students must be present on the day of the exam .
• Escudie said ‘a small number’ have been granted emergency extensions by military commanders because of extenuating circumstances, including deaths in the family.
• The defendants decide to admit their guilt, but insist that there are extenuating circumstances.
• His sentence was reduced because of the extenuating circumstances.
• She could not forget her father's insistence to always pray from a siddur unless there were extenuating circumstances.
• There are no extenuating circumstances that could lessen the severity of the crime I have committed. MUSIC FOR BOYS
• At their return they did eat more soberly at supper than at other times, and meats more desiccative and extenuating; to the end that the intemperate moisture of the air, communicated to the body by a necessary confinitive, might by this means be corrected, and that they might not receive any prejudice for want of their ordinary bodily exercise. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• ‘Unless there are the most extenuating circumstances, a person convicted of murder can expect no clemency until he or she has served an extremely lengthy sentence,’ Mr Holmes said.