How to Use sweetheart deal in a Sentence

sweetheart deal

noun

• House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has called it a sweetheart deal.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The president's son had a plea agreement with the Justice Department related to tax and gun charges that many on the Right lambasted as a sweetheart deal.
  — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2023
• Also included was Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who denounced the plea agreement as a sweetheart deal.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• For several years, Mitchell reaped the benefits of this sweetheart deal with himself unimpeded.
  — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• But Republicans blasted the agreement as a sweetheart deal and Hunter Biden became a lightning rod for criticism of his father.
  — Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• Those shows were produced by the same company that broadcast them, prompting their creators to fret about sweetheart deals that failed to deliver fair-market value.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 May 2023
• Public uproar eventually killed that proposal, but not Moreno’s lust for a sweetheart deal.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Hunter’s lawyers have accused Weiss of caving to political pressure from Republicans who cast the initial plea agreement as a sweetheart deal for the president’s son.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2024
• The son of President Joe Biden recently reached an agreement to plead guilty to misdemeanor federal tax charges; Republicans have derided that as a sweetheart deal.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 July 2023
• The Miami-Dade prosecutor had given Brown a sweetheart deal: 25 years in prison and immunity from prosecution for one of Miami’s worst mass shootings.
  — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 13 July 2024
• Energy policy watchdog organizations, however, are concerned that the bill amounts to a sweetheart deal for utility and gas companies that will keep the state tethered to gas combustion.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
• Critics accused the board majority of making a sweetheart deal to provide control of a district campus to a politically influential charter school.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• He was originally expected to plead guilty under an agreement made with federal prosecutors which Republicans claimed was a sweetheart deal.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• His attorneys have argued that prosecutors bowed to pressure by Republicans, who claimed the Democratic president’s son was initially given a sweetheart deal, and that he was indicted because of political pressure.
  — TIME, 14 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024