How to Use condone in a Sentence

condone

verb
  • And to be clear, most don't condone it on the left or right.
    Anthony Salvanto, Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The city doesn't maintain the skatepark but condones it.
    Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • This time the master chief seemed to be able to condone my presence at the work end of the mop.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2016
  • But this wasn't to condone those who fall asleep in the audience.
    Seth Fradkoff, Town & Country, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The team did not and will never condone this sort of behavior.
    Matias Grez, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • We were very saddened by this news and do not condone his actions.
    CBS News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • There’s no excuse for items promoting racist tropes to be peddled to the public nor for the rest of us to condone them.
    Jeffrey L. Seglin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Chappelle didn’t condone it, but argued that the backlash went too far.
    Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2022
  • First said in a tweet on Jan. 6 that it was not involved in breaching the Capitol and doesn't condone violence.
    Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The suit alleges that the police chief at the time, James Debbie, did not take any action and might have even condoned the antics.
    Scott Berson, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
  • The newly pink-haired Ms. Munley said her co-workers condone her new look.
    Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
  • On one hand, the magazine doesn’t condone prison escapes.
    Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The school had its share of racial incidents, but he was never involved and wasn’t seen as condoning them.
    ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2019
  • But while there’s no need to condone book burning and plenty of reasons to condemn it, it shouldn’t be punished by law.
    Suzanne Nossel, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
  • It was done in a way that was completely condoned by the French fashion industry.
    Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 July 2015
  • This wasn’t the first time Barkley had condoned violence with NBA players either.
    Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 2 May 2018
  • Gosar said his video was an attempt by his staff to reach a younger audience and was not meant to condone violence.
    Mariam Khan, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2021
  • There are dipping sauces, but the restaurant doesn’t exactly condone their use.
    Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The 2nd Amendment was never meant to condone murdering kids.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The policy states that the U.S. acknowledges, but does not condone, China's claim of sovereignty over the Taiwan.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Giving them their rightful place among the game’s greats is not the same as condoning or absolving any cheating.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Here's some bad news for those who condone this or uses it theres not a workplace on Earth that will provide this to its employees.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Fairfax Republicans Chair Steve Knotts said in a statement that the party does not condone the laughter in the video.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
  • More often, nobody knows how to talk about an attitude toward food that the entire sport seems to condone.
    Erin Berger, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The school has no tradition or culture that would ever allow or condone what happened to Chessy.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 3 Apr. 2018
  • No school would provide landing space for a student’s fighter jet, or condone the disruption the jet’s use would cause.
    Matt Parker, Wired, 23 Jan. 2020
  • For many years, Netflix and others streamers didn’t seem bothered by password sharing — and even seemed to condone it.
    Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The concept of God is a sticking point to many, having been used throughout history to condone the opposite of what Tya is.
    Melanie Fine, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The Court is unwilling to set such a precedent by condoning Tesla's approach here.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Yet politicians continue to do it, or encourage it, or condone it, or listen to it.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2021

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