Sample sentences for STRINGENT

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Definition

demanding strict attention to detailed rules and procedures

We insist that our employees follow stringent safety measures.

stringent = strict

The school has a stringent dress code.

stringent = strict

At the very least, I am somewhat troubled that this child was not held to the same stringent application standards (i.e. interview) that the rest of the incoming middle-school students were.
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

stringent = strict and unbending

but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations;
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

stringent = demanding

I would not believe anything worse of him except under stringent proof.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
Among these men there was a stringent code of honour, any infringement of which was punished by death.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- A Study In Scarlet
Clearly they could want nothing but a stringent policeman.
Dickens, Charles -- Little Dorrit
And even there they were frustrated, for stringent vagrancy laws were passed and rigidly enforced.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
The Chinese government has in vain attempted to deal with the evil by stringent laws.
Verne, Jules -- Around The World In Eighty Days
In the course of his lark he managed to make a wide breach in one of the university's most stringent laws.
Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
"Becoming a little more stringent, I see," he observed, holding it up.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Kingdom of the Blind
Theresa's salary was barely enough; they were economizing less stringently than before, but still had to watch their expenses.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
I would not believe anything worse of him except under stringent proof.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Then you would be required to undergo a stringent series of character and aptitude tests at the Auror office.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The military regulations which had seemed so stringent the year before were now mild by comparison with the ones issued by General Pope.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Regulations were stringent, and his data never was obtained from a reliable source, but always were obtained.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
There is a certain stringency to life, a willful doing without.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
Beneath his stringent formulation lies a wonderful realization that is actually so simple that everyday language cannot accommodate it.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
The Chinese government has in vain attempted to deal with the evil by stringent laws.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
And I might add that adaptability is the one characteristic most stringently required at present by laws other than those of nature.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

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