Example Sentences

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“I have carefully reviewed Montoyae Dontae Sharpe’s case and am granting him a Pardon of Innocence,” Mr. Cooper, a Democrat, said in a statement.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

“I am granting Harold Wayne Nichols a temporary reprieve from execution until December 31, 2020, due to the challenges and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Lee said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2020

“The fact I am granting you bail now is no indicator of the sentence you are likely to receive,” he says with quiet severity.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2017

“I am granting your application because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around,” Obama wrote in a signed letter of notification.

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2016

Let us say that you owe it to me, shall we, and that I myself am granting you this unexpected, I will even say, this unjust favour?

From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice