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How to use extenuation in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word extenuation? Here are some examples.

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Showing that some of those killed were even more bloodthirsty than their killers is no extenuation.
His long wings beat slow, steady beats, as if accentuating the overall extenuation of the bird.
There is, perhaps, room for extenuation in the case of Wirz, an ineffectual martinet clearly out of his depth.
Soil samples were tested in September 2008 and the results confirmed the natural extenuation of the residual pollution previously reported by Cedre's laboratory.
As a result, few cases were brought before the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy because once an extenuation was granted, cases could not be sent elsewhere.
Injected into the dermis, the hyaluronic acid creates a volume which brings about extenuation even the disappearance of the wrinkles or the of a ridule.
Its attempts at censorship were, despite Cervantes, farcical. All that, and more, may reasonably be pleaded in extenuation and Mr Kamen does so convincingly.
In California, an actress who was arrested for driving at 90 m.p.h. said in extenuation that her psychiatrist had instructed her to do any old thing she felt like, to relieve her emotional tensions.
It's a question of the mind being forced to find a way of dealing with something, not in extenuation and not in therapy, but as a means of presenting the material to itself.
The utmost they allow is an extenuation of its absolute necessity.
Extenuation, by which the Crime, that seemed great, is made lesse.
What Deeds of Charity we have to alledge in Extenuation of our Punishment.
Examples from Classical Literature
You heard him plead, in extenuation of his fault, his mode of life, his rearing.
I urged my oath in extenuation of my conduct, and that I was bound to return.
It must, of course, be remembered in extenuation that with all his social and tutorial duties, the don is very hard worked.
From the British point of view there was much to be said in extenuation of the practice.
The bursar thought that Mr. Ravenshoe's plea of sobriety should be taken in extenuation.
For Don Ignacio himself, as the recipient of these favours, much may be said in extenuation.
Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime?
The object of this examination grinned a faint grin of extenuation.
What have you to say in extenuation of your conduct hitherto?
Its proprietor said what he could in extenuation of its maladroitness.
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