How to Use censure in a Sentence

censure

1 of 2 noun

• The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination.
• The censure vote was 35-1 with Eastman as the sole no vote.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Rick Klein, back to the fallout from the censure and comments from the RNC.
  — ABC News, 6 Feb. 2022
• The party shot down the censure measure on a 41-19 vote.
  — Morgan Phillips, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2021
• Before the vote, Clary took to talk radio to speak against the idea of a censure.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2021
• The censure, pushed by allies of Trump, was just over a page long.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2022
• But some felt that wasn’t enough and pushed for a more formal censure.
  — Author: Eric Russell Portland Press Herald, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2021
• There need to be motions of censure at the very least against Hawley and Cruz.
  — Benjamin Carter Hett, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• Less than two years elapsed before the next censure — and more attempts are on the way.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Calif. Democrats are are now pushing censure of the president in the House.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2017
• Still, Congress has held two censure votes to oust him, the last one in early May.
  — Lucien Chauvin, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2021
• Those threats were unique and cause for censure, but not the only reckless language in the mix.
  — oregonlive.com, 25 June 2019
• The most obvious -- and public -- would be a formal censure vote in the House.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 25 May 2021
• The next day, the Navy took one more swipe at Benson, this time with a public letter of censure.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2019
• And again, similar to Greene, at the time, McCarthy called the censure vote an abuse of power.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
• A spokesman for Ryan declined to comment on the Democrats' censure effort.
  — Mike Debonis, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• Yet none of this censure is likely to make a jot of difference.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• Now, some think Boebert should face a similar fate and, at the very least, censure.
  — Lincoln Mitchell, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
• When public comment about the censure was over, Holt and Ross engaged in a heated back-and-forth.
  — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 15 Feb. 2024
• White sat a few feet from Herzfeld as the rabbi demanded his censure.
  — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• Burkons was upset that he was not made aware of the censure prior to the meeting, as were the other six members of council.
  — cleveland, 18 Aug. 2020
• That speech — one of the treasures hidden in the play’s lead casket — saves the play, time and again, from history’s total censure.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2022
• The final vote caused some Democrats to complain that approving the censure should have taken 31 votes.
  — Ray Stern, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• If one eludes the trap of picking wife or mistress, there is still the task of distilling critique from moral censure.
  — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 12 July 2018
• The House came within two votes of expelling her but opted for censure instead.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2021
• Avoid disapproval and censure by keeping your nose to the grindstone.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 16 May 2017
• But there wasn’t nearly enough support among the full state committee for a censure.
  — Author: Eric Russell Portland Press Herald, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2021
• In the first instance, city council said in the censure that on Jan. 20, Brown used a city plow to clear a parking lot at a private business outside the city.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2024
• But there was a time when the line between private and public was unyielding and those who crossed it faced censure.
  — Nancy McDonell, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
• The resolution cites the trafficking of fentanyl and apprehension of terror watch list suspects as reasons for his censure.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024

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censure

2 of 2 verb

• He was censured by the committee for his failure to report the problem.
• That led to an attempt by the state party to censure him.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 14 June 2020
• The worst that can happen to Bailey is that he’d be censured.
  — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2018
• He was censured for insulting the speaker of the House.
  — Joella Carman, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Tlaib is the fourth lawmaker to be censured since 2000.
  — Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• The committee will vote Feb. 13 on whether to censure him.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2021
• The same party refused to censure David Duke, the Klansman.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Feb. 2020
• Writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• Each survived a bid to censure them by the state committee.
  — Author: Eric Russell Portland Press Herald, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2021
• The board voted to censure him — one step short of taking away his license.
  — Andrew Ford, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
• The bill introduced by Nancy Pelosi to censure his tweet passed that test.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• The board also voted to censure Weiser over the remarks and called on him to resign.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2021
• Still, the school board president, Greg Holt wanted to censure Ross.
  — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 15 Feb. 2024
• Council went on to censure Brennan for his remarks to Porter.
  — cleveland, 14 June 2021
• The vote to censure McConnell came with two weeks to go until the November election.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Since being censured, Zephyr has set up office on the bench just outside the House chamber.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 May 2023
• Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol.
  — Jeff Parrott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
• His vote led some Utah Republicans to push to censure him.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
• The five members of the board who oppose Weston and Bone have attempted to censure them.
  — Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2022
• Kinzinger and Cheney were censured by their party and voted out of the House Freedom Caucus.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
• This was not the first time Adams has been censured after saying something deemed to be offensive.
  — Chris Lamb, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
• McCarthy was censured just one month after his appearance on the show.
  — CBS News, 7 Nov. 2019
• By Tuesday, under pressure to take a stand, the Arizona Senate voted to censure one of its own.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• Legislators have censured one of their own before, the last time being in 1971.
  — OregonLive.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• At least one Republican has floated the idea of censuring Schumer over his remarks about the court.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
• Within weeks, Cohn was banished and McCarthy was soon censured.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 June 2017
• The board will then decide whether to adopt a resolution censuring her.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Garmback was censured for driving the police cruiser too close to Tamir, forcing Loehmann's hand.
  — Staff, cleveland.com, 31 May 2017
• The show’s creators have given up being funny and opted instead to scold and censure.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
• Months later, the Texas Republican Party voted to censure him for that vote and others.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024

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