How to Use conscience in a Sentence
conscience
noun
- The thief must have had an attack of conscience, because he returned the wallet with nothing missing from it.
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And what can the rest of us who do still have a moral conscience do about this?
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Pat Lenhoff,
chicagotribune.com,
21 June 2018
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The use of such symbols deepened the shock to the conscience many in the nation felt.
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Star Tribune,
15 Jan. 2021
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The physicist is the moral conscience that runs through Rhodes’ book.
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WIRED,
8 Aug. 2023
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The rest of the week, your conscience belongs to the State, not your Creator.
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Sean Spicer,
National Review,
22 Oct. 2021
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Love, too, from far away for the teenage clerk Martin and the weight of his conscience.
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Sara Sidner,
CNN,
10 Apr. 2021
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Many great artists have a conscience too, but none greater than his.
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Dennis McLellan,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2023
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So that’s an issue for the balance sheet, not the conscience.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
8 July 2021
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Known to many as the conscience of the council, Goode died in December at the age of 93.
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Elizabeth Montgomery,
The Arizona Republic,
7 Apr. 2021
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Should anyone come across a spine, or a conscience, please alert the NCAA.
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Nancy Armour,
USA TODAY,
18 May 2021
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Well, one of the things a project scientist does is act as the conscience for the science.
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Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
11 July 2022
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But, again, the weight on her shoulders, and on her conscience, is very, very heavy.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
4 May 2021
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Yet, all of these issues are the result of a guilty conscience.
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Ariana Romero,
refinery29.com,
15 July 2019
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There are sweating pockets of male shame and grease spots on the conscience.
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James Parker,
The Atlantic,
9 Dec. 2020
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Something in his conscience, or gut, impels him to do the work.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
26 Jan. 2022
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South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country’s moral conscience.
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Andrew Meldrum,
Anchorage Daily News,
26 Dec. 2021
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South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country's moral conscience.
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Andrew Meldrum,
Chron,
27 Dec. 2021
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The movies are an industry, a con game with a half-guilty conscience.
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New York Times,
13 May 2021
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Only the rich can play the role of a global conscience on climate change.
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Radek Sikorski,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2023
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The Reverend’s not there to nudge his conscience, but Charlie makes a fine stand-in.
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Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2021
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So does the too-muchness of the Burtons’ own lives, all that beauty and conscience.
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Andrew O’Hagan,
The New Yorker,
27 Nov. 2023
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Luckily for me, Sarah serves as the conscience of the story.
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Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
8 Dec. 2022
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The night will forever be engraved in the conscience of sport.
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Kori Rumore,
chicagotribune.com,
18 Oct. 2021
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The difference between the two is that the psychopath doesn’t have a conscience.
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Jack Kelly,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2024
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There are so many issues in there that should rock our consciences.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2024
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The video shook the conscience of India and shed light on the gravity of the situation in the state.
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WIRED,
3 Aug. 2023
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This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief.
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Fox News,
30 June 2018
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Words of calm and conscience were always one of his special gifts.
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Adam Geller,
Chron,
14 Apr. 2022
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Any sportsman of conscience should do what is right: Boycott Afghanistan.
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Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
1 Jan. 2025
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My father, as well as Jimmy Carter, were loyal to their conscience.
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Katherine Fung,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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