Sample Sentences forextenuating (auto-selected)
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My Extenuating Circumstances save the day.† (source)
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There are extenuating circumstances.† (source)
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Miss Bennet was the only creature who could suppose there might be any extenuating circumstances in the case, unknown to the society of Hertfordshire; her mild and steady candour always pleaded for allowances, and urged the possibility of mistakes—but by everybody else Mr. Darcy was condemned as the worst of men.† (source)
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I wage a wild and senseless fight, I want to get out of the hollow and yet slide back into it again; I say "You must, it is your comrades, it is not an idiotic command," and again: "What does it matter to me, I have only one life to lose—" That is the result of all this leave, I plead in extenuation.† (source)
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Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime?† (source)
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It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.† (source)
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He knows there are, well, extenuating circumstances.† (source)
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Having declined to testify, do you have any statement to make in mitigation or extenuation?† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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And before a court less arbitrary and more merciful than a martial one, that plea would largely extenuate.† (source)
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How busy his thoughts were, as he walked home, in devising pitying excuses for her folly, in referring all her weakness to the sweet lovingness of her nature, in blaming Arthur, with less and less inclination to admit that his conduct might be extenuated too!† (source)
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I try to explain the extenuations of the thing.† (source)
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Constitute a sin it may, but consider yourself, Grigory Vassilyevitch, that it only extenuates it, if it does constitute.† (source)
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When there are extenuating circumstances.† (source)
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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation.† (source)
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This makes English people of fashion think well of him, as of a young fellow who is manly enough to confess to an obvious disadvantage without any attempt to conceal or extenuate it.† (source)
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This outrage committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some female monastery.† (source)
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