Example Sentences

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International law permits teenagers to work nondangerous jobs that will not interfere with their education.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

It’s not unreasonable that your husband assumed you would text him, or that a meter check might take up to half an hour for nondangerous reasons.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2018

“This is the low-hanging fruit in the system: nondangerous undocumented immigrants with families,” said John Sandweg, a former acting director of ICE under Mr. Obama.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2017

This was because fog is a "nondangerous situation."

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2010

Or should the problem be dealt with by finding alternative penalties for nondangerous offenders, leaving prisons to do the only thing they have ever done well: confine the truly dangerous?

From Time Magazine Archive