How to Use permissive in a Sentence

permissive

adjective

• Some states have more permissive laws than others.
• So, what drove the West’s permissive-for-their-times voting laws?
  — Jessica Flores, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2020
• All of you are from states where there are fairly permissive gun laws.
  — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2023
• Cruz's blockade was meant as a protest against Biden's permissive stance on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 18 Dec. 2021
• Counties can be stricter than their state tier, but not more permissive.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• And in some quarters of Wall Street, such as hedge funds, the code has typically been more permissive.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
• Some countries in this group are more permissive than others.
  — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2022
• The main cause of a child being spoiled is when a parent is too lenient or what’s called permissive parenting.
  — Denise Schipani, Parents, 3 Nov. 2023
• Mississippi's gun laws are among the most permissive in the country.
  — Priya Krishnakumar, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
• Some say the companies have been too permissive with state media.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Gerrit De Vynck, Taylor Telford, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
• The stability- and traction-control systems maintain order but can't be switched to a more permissive sport mode.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 25 May 2023
• At the same time, the state’s gun laws have become increasingly permissive.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
• Some counties, such as Orange County, will be as permissive on masks as the state allows.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• In the rulings, the court’s Democrats take a more permissive view and Republicans a narrower one.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2021
• Generally, the study linked permissive laws, like those in Utah, to more outbreaks.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
• That’s more permissive than the laws of nearly every country in Europe.
  — Edward Whelan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2021
• These rules are more permissive than those published just a few months earlier.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• Meanwhile, big cities such as Dallas and Houston, are in red states with largely permissive gun laws.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
• As the culture of college sports has become more permissive to transfers, players who has not found a role by their third year often choose to move on.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
• The company has even added soft sand, drift, and rally submodes, which get much more permissive with the amount of slip allowed to each wheel when away from tarmac.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 July 2022
• Arkansas has some of the most permissive gun laws in the United States and is struggling with an increase in gun violence.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• The Senate has previously approved more permissive bills that died in the House.
  — Jeff Amy, ajc, 17 Feb. 2021
• Partner exchanges are guided by a set of more permissive rules that allow gun ads to flow through Google’s ad systems.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 14 June 2022
• Instead, a slew of bills were passed further loosening the state’s already permissive gun laws.
  — Dallas News, 18 June 2021
• My permissive approach to casting meant some characters were played by more than one kid.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023
• And a permissive gun culture doesn’t help either, Asher said.
  — Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Georgia courts have fairly permissive rules on news cameras in the courtroom, and this means Trump won't have to enter a plea on television.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
• In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25, the state is facing intense scrutiny over its permissive gun laws.
  — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• But one thing is clear: politicians also need to find a way to lower the ever-rising temperature in our country that creates the permissive environment for acts of terroristic violence.
  — Jacob Ware, TIME, 15 July 2024
• Enter, the elephant parent, which is gaining more recognition alongside other parenting styles like permissive parenting.
  — Mia Taylor, Parents, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024