How to Use exonerate in a Sentence

exonerate

verb

• Hardy said that all the new tests exonerated Swinton leaving the state with no choice but to ask for a nolle on the case.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Both Veronique and Tom die in a car crash, but not before Tom exonerates Mie.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The men were later exonerated of the crime and this year have sued Trump for defamation.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
• The department released the footage of the shooting that seemed to exonerate Piper within a few hours.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 July 2021
• In that complaint, the board voted 2-1 to exonerate Baller.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2021
• But that evening, Mr. Zeldin sounded all but ready to exonerate him.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Trump wrote on Truth Social after the news broke, although the delay doesn't exonerate him in the case.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
• But the drugs aren't likely to play a role in the decision to charge or exonerate the officers who killed the unarmed black man.
  — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 22 May 2018
• In 2002, the five men were exonerated of the crime when DNA linked another person to the attack.
  — Jaden Amos, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
• But the grounds on which he will surely be exonerated are also not in doubt.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2020
• He was not exonerated on assigning blame for the brawling to both to neo-Nazis and those protesting the neo-Nazis.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• But even that came out 23 years after the crime and 10 years after they were exonerated.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 June 2024
• As for the nine patrolmen who opened fire, they were exonerated of all charges in a 1969 trial.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2018
• The film then turns into a story about a father racing to exonerate his child.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 July 2021
• Even if the numbers change and the House votes to impeach, Mr Trump will probably be exonerated in the Senate.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2019
• Dunn is the sixth person to be exonerated in Elkhart after spending years, even decades, in prison.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2024
• Why did Johnson slip through the cracks in both historic and modern efforts to exonerate victims of the trials?
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
• His lawyers have said evidence that could exonerate Spacey was deleted from the phone.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 5 July 2019
• Kelly has been exonerated on charges in the past, and XXX's case is still pending trial.
  — refinery29.com, 26 May 2018
• No vast sums of money were awarded (the Kings sought only $100), and Ray was not exonerated.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• But Mueller himself did not exonerate Trump, as Pence seemed to suggest.
  — Author: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2020
• That finding goes a long way to exonerate the ancient Rapanui in the case of their own population crash.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018
• But this cannot stand in the way of learning about Garvey’s true history and exonerating him.
  — Justin Hansford, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• She was exonerated in time to compete in the Tokyo Olympics the following summer.
  — Barry Svrluga, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• Nkrumah’s client, Jamal Russell, was convicted the same day on a drug charge and exonerated on a weapons count.
  — Larry Neumeister, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
• And Robert Kennedy was determined to exonerate his cousin.
  — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2021
• The fact that he was found guilty does not exonerate all the other past, present and future acts of police brutality.
  — Keith Magee, CNN, 24 May 2021
• One of them was the 1963 shooting and killing of a young Black woman, Cynthia Scott, by a Detroit cop who later was exonerated for his act.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2024
• But in 2021, two of them—Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam—were exonerated after serving decades behind bars.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 22 Feb. 2025
• Moreover, he is saddled by an array of potential conflicts arising from his efforts to exonerate Jan. 6 defendants — including serving on the board of an organization that helped to pay their legal fees.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025