How to Use condemn in a Sentence

condemn

verb
  • The country condemns the use of violence on prisoners.
  • The school condemns cheating, and any student caught cheating will be expelled.
  • City officials condemned our apartment building and forced us to leave.
  • The government condemns all acts of terrorism.
  • We strongly condemn this attack against our allies.
  • The store and both apartments above have been condemned.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Props to you for wanting to help her rather than condemn her.
    cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But that’s no reason to condemn them to the compost heap come fall.
    Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • He was found guilty and was condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 May 2020
  • Now a crowd had gathered on that same land to condemn what had been done.
    Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Democrats and voting rights groups were quick to condemn the bill.
    Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • In his post, Rodriguez-Kennedy called on Munguia to condemn the ad.
    Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
  • But Friedberg isn’t here to condemn the band or the album.
    Cecilia Gigliotti, Longreads, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Some choose to ignore it, or condemn those who speak out against it.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 June 2022
  • The trip was condemned by those who oppose the regime and its brutal practices.
    Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The rebuke condemned the cobbler to walk the earth forever.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 July 2017
  • And those in the news media who were quick to condemn Ujiri as the instigator.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Others said the city had a clear right to condemn the house on behalf of a public project.
    Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
  • City inspectors have condemned the place and added the address to the list of structures that are to be razed.
    Brenda Cain, cleveland.com, 29 Dec. 2017
  • Nine of the men pictured here were condemned to what amounted to a life sentence.
    Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The move was condemned by critics as an attack on the country's free press.
    Ben Westcott, CNN, 6 May 2020
  • And not be seen as leprous, or as condemned, or as diseased.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 13 June 2019
  • The sprinter did have a message for anyone who might condemn her.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
  • But Gillibrand has faced the most questions about being too quick to condemn him.
    Will Weissert, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The house has been condemned several times but always gets brought back up to code, Sgt.
    Fox News, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Few virtual-choir videos condemn you to staring at the same grid for the entire song.
    David Pogue, Wired, 4 June 2020
  • Or a White House that still won’t condemn protests outside justices’ homes.
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • This isn’t meant to condemn those who hire household workers.
    Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Robert Graboyes, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The North has mobilized massive protests in past weeks to condemn the refugees and their actions.
    Fox News, 19 June 2020

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