How to Use censor in a Sentence

censor

1 of 2 noun

• Government censors deleted all references to the protest.
• What trips the censor, and what does not?
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
• For centuries, artists fought censors and kings.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
• Meanwhile, my decade-long struggle with the censors had come to a head.
  — Amir Ahmadi Arian, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The new rules do not limit the scope of a censor’s verdict to a film’s content alone.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
• Faculty would not just self-censor, they would be censored.
  — Nicholas Dirks, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
• Pulp fiction was a no-go under the censors, as was news deemed too violent.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
• The move prompted censors to scour past films for content that might violate the law.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• The censorship cry babies are now the censors.
  — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 4 Sep. 2025
• Something that wouldn’t pass muster with ABC censors.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Apr. 2026
• The censors must have been expecting a great cans-worthy post and panicked.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
• This year’s censors were most freaked out by teenage sexuality of any kind.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
• But books could acquire a certain cachet from their placement in the censor’s crosshairs.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• Your opponent will be deemed a censor, and collapse into chaos.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
• And often, apartheid government censors turned up.
  — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 28 Mar. 2026
• At the same time the Chinese censors come in, in a matter of minutes, to delete those messages.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 4 June 2023
• This was no heroic stand for a free press against a government censor or powerful figure.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2022
• Over the past three years, the journal has prepared 12 issues, but only one has made it past the censors.
  — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• The drive to challenge, ban or censor books has not only changed the lives of librarians across the nation.
  — Nicole A. Cooke, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
• As the Freudians have long told us, the real censor isn’t so much the flesh-and-blood mother as the one inside.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• However to remain in the band and self-censor will gnaw my conscience, erode my integrity.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• Once an editor/censor reviewed it, then it could be played back, provided there is enough time to roll replays.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• She's used to creating internet buzz with her outfits, but didn’t expect to see the censors flag this one.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
• The bottom line is the censors need to get it together and let Paige focus on what Paige does best.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
• Demi and Kenny smash their black censor boxes against each other and the first rumblings of chaos strike the beach.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
• But then infamous Iranian film censors had their say.
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
• As the censors grew more powerful, so did resistance efforts.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
• Eleni Sadik would likely be considered a taboo role by Turkish censors.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 July 2026
• Its priests are the censors, the propagandists, the secret police.
  — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Snow's set was filled with the kind of moves that once made TV censors decree that Elvis be shown only from the waist up.
  — Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023

censor

2 of 2 verb

• The station censored her speech before broadcasting it.
• His report was heavily censored.
• Films have been censored, and theater plays axed.
  — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
• The film was censored and barred from release in Brazil for two years.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
• Don’t censor yourself to avoid making a stir.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
• Because that was his goal—to censor Hip-Hop.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• This is Charley self-censoring.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
• By the time of its public release, in the summer of that year, it had been censored.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• Faculty would not just self-censor, they would be censored.
  — Nicholas Dirks, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
• In the first year of the genocide, I was censured and censored on campus.
  — Sahar Mustafah august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
• Then there are the attempts to censor museums.
  — Isabel Ruehl, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026
• Some of the content could get censored if the country or foreign market doesn’t want a kiss in it.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
• Nor should a station group like Sinclair be able to censor content.
  — Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
• Years later, a right-wing party was elected and tried to censor the news and shut the network down.
  — Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
• The images are sometimes censored, and there’s not much of a discussion there.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
• One more note, by the way, about the angry push to censor the novel upon its release is worth adding here.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Nov. 2022
• At least 19 states have laws censoring school lessons related to race.
  — Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
• Kesha captioned one photo that featured her breasts censored with hearts.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
• That comment was also censored.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2026
• On the contrary, creators must speak out… the worst thing that could happen would be to remain silent or to be censored.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 May 2026
• Any discussion of the event is strictly censored and controlled.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• In 2019, the state passed a law that censors me from saying certain things to my clients.
  — Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
• The song was censored and the singer’s online accounts suspended.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Epstein is posing with Pashcow, a third man, and a woman whose face is censored.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
• It was censored in France, and later linked to a real-life murderer.
  — Spin Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
• Good luck to anyone who tries censoring the movie for airlines or television.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• The writers inside Iran have always been censored.
  — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
• The Plough and the Stars was, in the end, never censored by the government.
  — Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
• Since then, Li’s account has become a go-to source for news censored in China.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• Some social media posts and first-person accounts of the flooding were censored.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023