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.
• Act on your conscience as the moon harmonizes with Jupiter.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
• Since his spleen has been damaged and his white cell count is low, Ripley can’t in good conscience release him.
  — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 20 Nov. 2024
• My question for you is: Why is this weighing so heavily on your conscience?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• Any fellow conservative of conscience should condemn this in the strongest terms.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• With his conscience clear, Owen finally rode atop the wild steed, triumphantly emerging from a barn that burned down due to a gas leak.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024
• Their plan goes surprisingly well; however, after the crew cash in, Bear’s guilty conscience begins to hit him hard.
  — Kali Simmons, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
• Then there's Sister Bernadette, who the Sisters rescued from a dreadful childhood, and now feels her conscience weigh on her.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
• Human beings are worthy of protection, and the importance of a growing human in the womb cannot be undermined in good conscience.
  — Chelsey Youman, National Review, 15 Aug. 2021
• Oregon and Oregon State should listen to some of the most powerful voices on their own campuses and their conscience, too.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2021
• Why not give the chief executive six years, free him to govern according to his conscience, and put a choke chain on the imperial presidency?
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
• Defense lawyers argued that he was motivated by his own conscience and that his leaks didn’t jeopardize national security.
  — NBC News, 28 July 2021
• Nick’s friend, conscience and discreetly lovesick business partner is Watts, portrayed by Thandiwe Newton.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2021
• Any requirement would allow for exceptions for medical reasons, religious beliefs, and matters of conscience.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2021
• 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, Anchorage Daily News, 26 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, Chron, 27 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024