How to use "extenuating" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

Example sentences for "extenuating" in popular movie and book plots

By a set of very clever questions, is explaining how he would have had to make to be pretty sure to get the extenuating circumstances. - A Crime in Paradise
He ends by saying he cannot think of anything extenuating and mitigating. - Word of Honor (novel)
Holly was convicted, despite the extenuating circumstances and sent to prison (she'd had flashed back to the rape). - Guiding Light (1970–79)

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