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
• The rest of the week, your conscience belongs to the State, not your Creator.
  — Sean Spicer, National Review, 22 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Reverend’s not there to nudge his conscience, but Charlie makes a fine stand-in.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Last week, the city of Columbus filed a suit that also challenged the conscience clause.
  — cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022
• Every day was a slog through his own guilty conscience.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• Toward the end of the journey, my second-guessing snowballed into a crisis of conscience.
  — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024
• Yet he seems afflicted by pangs of conscience over the uses to which his fans put his fame—and his efforts to escape from it involve making use of it again.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024