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.
  • The Big Ten, the conscience of the Power Five, knew too.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2020
  • And what can the rest of us who do still have a moral conscience do about this?
    — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • The use of such symbols deepened the shock to the conscience many in the nation felt.
    — Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Somewhere, the man has to have a conscience of some kind.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 July 2025
  • The physicist is the moral conscience that runs through Rhodes’ book.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The rest of the week, your conscience belongs to the State, not your Creator.
    — Sean Spicer, National Review, 22 Oct. 2021
  • This will be a stain on our conscience for decades to come.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Love, too, from far away for the teenage clerk Martin and the weight of his conscience.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN, 10 Apr. 2021
  • And so the depravity of the crime just shocks the conscience.
    — Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2025
  • Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
    — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025
  • Many great artists have a conscience too, but none greater than his.
    — Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • So that’s an issue for the balance sheet, not the conscience.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 July 2021
  • Known to many as the conscience of the council, Goode died in December at the age of 93.
    — Elizabeth Montgomery, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Should anyone come across a spine, or a conscience, please alert the NCAA.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 May 2021
  • Well, one of the things a project scientist does is act as the conscience for the science.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 11 July 2022
  • But, again, the weight on her shoulders, and on her conscience, is very, very heavy.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 May 2021
  • Yet, all of these issues are the result of a guilty conscience.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
  • He is considered by many observers of the NFL as the first conscience of the game.
    — NBC News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The conditions at the border have shocked the conscience of the country. ...
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 10 July 2019
  • But the opposite is true: The people are the soul and the conscience of the republic.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
  • There are sweating pockets of male shame and grease spots on the conscience.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Something in his conscience, or gut, impels him to do the work.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Jan. 2022
  • South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country’s moral conscience.
    — Andrew Meldrum, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
  • South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country's moral conscience.
    — Andrew Meldrum, Chron, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Each of these three leaders faces a crisis on the world stage but also with their own conscience.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This Valentine’s Day, your heart and your conscience might thank you for keeping your message genuinely your own.
    — Julian Givi, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
  • There is some small measure of comfort that our public conscience can still be shocked.
    — Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Victims and survivors have called for these files to be released in the hope that people of conscience will take action.
    — Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This Valentine’s Day, your heart and your conscience might thank you for keeping your message genuinely your own.
    — Danielle Hass, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2026

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