Sample sentences for INFRACTION

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Definition

a minor offense

an infraction like a speeding ticket

A photo is taken of the car in the intersection with the red light. The violator can see the infraction photo online and determine if they want to challenge the citation.
Their violation falls under the Level Three Infractions, 'fighting with another student.'
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
He was exceedingly careful not to commit any minor traffic infraction.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
I will not wage war against Earth for this infraction.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
"Gross rifle—SMI," he said to the guidon corporal, who marked down my infraction.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
It only takes one infraction, one whiff of scandal, to ruin your reputation and your chances forever.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
'Chaplain,' he continued, looking up, 'we accuse you also of the commission of crimes and infractions we don't even know about yet.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Someone made a long speech listing every infraction of the rules we were committing that night.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
Then people can't say you're attacking them to excuse your own infractions."
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
According to state law, any speeding infraction over a hundred miles an hour earned the driver an immediate escort to jail.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
How many before him had gotten this far only to get sent back for some stupid infraction?
Junot Diaz -- Drown
And the Volturi's response to this kind of infraction was so automatic, it was already decided.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
In Plaszow, I would have been shot or at least lashed for such a blatant infraction, for being "a lazy and irresponsible" Jew.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
He who punishes infractions of the law is therefore the real master of society.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
He d heard that any infraction against the royal house was punishable by death to the perpetrator s entire family.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
Number 50: Periodic Conventions to Correct Infractions
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Bratton turned the transit police into an organization focused on the smallest infractions, on the details of life underground.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
A rose lay beside her, and if she now and then glanced at the flower, it was with no infraction of her usual preoccupied air.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
Her fuse was as short as I had seen it, and the smallest infractions—a cupboard door left open, crumbs on the counter—would set her off.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me

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