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.
  • 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
  • The physicist is the moral conscience that runs through Rhodes’ book.
    WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Love, too, from far away for the teenage clerk Martin and the weight of his conscience.
    Sara Sidner, CNN, 10 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The movies are an industry, a con game with a half-guilty conscience.
    New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Only the rich can play the role of a global conscience on climate change.
    Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • So does the too-muchness of the Burtons’ own lives, all that beauty and conscience.
    Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Luckily for me, Sarah serves as the conscience of the story.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The night will forever be engraved in the conscience of sport.
    Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The difference between the two is that the psychopath doesn’t have a conscience.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • There are so many issues in there that should rock our consciences.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The video shook the conscience of India and shed light on the gravity of the situation in the state.
    WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief.
    Fox News, 30 June 2018
  • Words of calm and conscience were always one of his special gifts.
    Adam Geller, Chron, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Every day was a slog through his own guilty conscience.
    New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • And men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand.
    Anne Branigin, The Root, 1 Nov. 2017
  • My white guilt — our white guilt — only helps to ease our own conscience.
    Elizabeth Diane MacK, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • Rice wrote a letter to the judge asking him to follow his conscience.
    NBC News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Shopping with a conscience is one way to make small choices that add up to big changes.
    Jaime Stathis, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The sedatives are added to reinforce this idea, while the sound of the night comes to tear through the unconscious conscience.
    Valeria Verbaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Gordon agrees, but also believes the whole conscience rights thing is a bit of a farce.
    Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • This was made worse by those who sought profits over conscience.
    Donna Frye Community Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2020

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