Fines is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Fines in a sentence
Related words
Fines meaning
- plural of fine
- Fine particles, whether or not airborne.
- Small particles of cereal at the bottom of a cereal box.
Using Fines
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of fine | Fine particles, whether or not airborne. | Small particles of cereal at the bottom of a cereal box.
- In the example corpus, fines often appears in combinations such as: fines and, in fines, the fines.
Context around Fines
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fines
- In this selection, "fines" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pay, 6139, increasing, issued, given and set stand out and add context to how "fines" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 400 in fines each day and 5 000 fines. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fines" sits close to words such as console, taliban and weighed, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fines
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Donning such warm clothing could result in you facing fines of up to £5,000 fines. (16 words)
Fines ain’t nothing to Trump but for the Ray Ray’s of the world, fines destroy lives. (18 words)
Be transparent by reporting publicly on the number of speeding fines, poor parking fines, dangerous driving arrests and convictions. (19 words)
Appearing on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, she said: “I’m not convinced that increasing fines is the answer and I think you do actually see across the country real variation in how those fines are applied. (40 words)
The City of West Park has established a period of Code Enforcement Liens and Accrued Fines Amnesty that would address the back-log of liens on record/daily fines accruing and sought to provide relief to the property owners. (39 words)
A CBC News investigation has found no evidence that any fines have been dished out since the Newfoundland and Labrador government beefed up a law five years ago to make sure landlords and tenants were made more accountable. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
July last year was the month with the highest number of fines issued, after there was a grace period in June when only level one fines were issued, with 6139 fines given out.
Appearing on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, she said: “I’m not convinced that increasing fines is the answer and I think you do actually see across the country real variation in how those fines are applied.
Council vehicles copped 163 fines for breaking road safety laws, with council staff racking up the eye-watering fines over the past five years.
Provincial law allows for fines to be levied “for each date” an offence occurred, with the minimum and maximum range of corporate fines set between $25,000 and $6 million.
The City of West Park has established a period of Code Enforcement Liens and Accrued Fines Amnesty that would address the back-log of liens on record/daily fines accruing and sought to provide relief to the property owners.
Be transparent by reporting publicly on the number of speeding fines, poor parking fines, dangerous driving arrests and convictions.
Donning such warm clothing could result in you facing fines of up to £5,000 fines.
Figures obtained by this newspaper show the fines have, for a decade, been issued at an astonishing rate of more than 500 every day, with drivers having paid an eye-watering £64 million in fines.
Fines ain’t nothing to Trump but for the Ray Ray’s of the world, fines destroy lives.
The largest fines imposed last years were two fines of $15,000 each for failure to comply with orders issued by the RentSafeTO team, Grant said.
People have offered to help the gym pay the fines, but it can’t afford potentially $400 in fines each day, he said.
To make matters worse, in addition to being forced to pay fines, some women have been told that if they don’t pay a portion of their fines, they could be sent to jail.
Victoria police have issued 88 fines in the past 24 hours, including fines for two Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang members, who were found leaving their Port Melbourne clubhouse after drinks.
After a new state law permitting local governments to raise fines by up to 100% came into effect on Aug. 1, the Fargo City Commission on Nov. 18 voted unanimously to double fines for numerous traffic violations.
Before DCC abolished library fines it had received €641,175.94 in paid fines over the last five years.
The DUI fines varied among states, with the lowest fines for first-time offenders ranging from US$150 in Wisconsin to US$2,000 in Texas.
While asking the Centre to reduce the fines by making suitable amendments in the Act, he had put the implementation of the new fines on hold in the state.
LCC Public Relations Manager George Sichimba said of the convicted number, 53 failed to pay the prescribed fines resulting in them serving a custodial sentence of two weeks simple imprisonment while 237 managed to pay fines.
Like other CIS republics, Turkmenistan has established an Environmental Fund based on revenues collected from environmental fines, but the fines generally are too low to accumulate significant revenue.
A CBC News investigation has found no evidence that any fines have been dished out since the Newfoundland and Labrador government beefed up a law five years ago to make sure landlords and tenants were made more accountable.
Common combinations with fines
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- fines and 29×
- in fines 24×
- the fines 23×
- fines for 19×
- fines of 11×
- with fines 10×
- and fines 9×
- of fines 8×
- fines in 7×
- face fines 7×