How to Use sweetheart deal in a Sentence

sweetheart deal

noun
Definition of sweetheart dealnext
  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has called it a sweetheart deal.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • The president's son had a plea agreement with the Justice Department related to tax and gun charges that many on the Right lambasted as a sweetheart deal.
    — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Also included was Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who denounced the plea agreement as a sweetheart deal.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • For several years, Mitchell reaped the benefits of this sweetheart deal with himself unimpeded.
    — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Those shows were produced by the same company that broadcast them, prompting their creators to fret about sweetheart deals that failed to deliver fair-market value.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • Public uproar eventually killed that proposal, but not Moreno’s lust for a sweetheart deal.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The son of President Joe Biden recently reached an agreement to plead guilty to misdemeanor federal tax charges; Republicans have derided that as a sweetheart deal.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 July 2023
  • Energy policy watchdog organizations, however, are concerned that the bill amounts to a sweetheart deal for utility and gas companies that will keep the state tethered to gas combustion.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Critics accused the board majority of making a sweetheart deal to provide control of a district campus to a politically influential charter school.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • He was originally expected to plead guilty under an agreement made with federal prosecutors which Republicans claimed was a sweetheart deal.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023

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