How to Use censorship in a Sentence

censorship

noun

• Some on the right say that fears of GOP censorship are overblown.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• And that is an area, on the Russian side of the border, with full censorship.
  — Time, 10 Aug. 2023
• By then, censorship was moving out of the courts and into schools and libraries.
  — Joy Lanzendorfer, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Like all of Garner’s writing, the book might be seen as a response to a kind of censorship of feeling.
  — Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
• So why is Kennedy, who purports to care about issues of censorship, speaking at the summit?
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• Because of propaganda and censorship, many of them weren’t aware of the depth and prevalence of poverty in the country.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• In any case, this censorship snafu, though soon sorted out, was not what the occasion called for.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• During his speech at the British Book Awards, Rushdie spoke out forcefully against censorship.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 16 May 2023
• Dropping a comic strip from our pages is not censorship.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, state legislators have sought to solve these problems in the worst possible way: with a wave of censorship of their own.
  — José Antonio Bowen, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Despite the crushing censorship and prison realities that hover on the edges, the heart of this book is warm and gentle.
  — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• The analysis offers a snapshot of the spike in censorship but most likely fails to capture the magnitude of bans.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• But overall, the program took care to present a variety of books, and avoid any appearance of censorship.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• In his State of the State address in February, the governor spoke directly about censorship and book bans in schools.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• Experts say the incident speaks to a growing concern about censorship in the country.
  — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• And President Biden seems ready to make library and classroom censorship an issue in the 2024 campaign.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 22 May 2023
• In Russia, a key question is whether the Kremlin follows Mr. Navalny’s death with a new round of repression and censorship.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• My understanding is that there has been some change in censorship in China.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• For now, the hacker team is just happy to be able to give their talk without the heavy-handed censorship that the MBTA attempted with its lawsuit 15 years ago.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• Footage and photos of the fire were censored in real time, as were posts critical of the government’s handling of the fire and subsequent censorship.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• Elsewhere in the world, Netflix has at times resisted censorship.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
• Government censorship of critical views has been on the rise.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• The huge spike in school censorship, along with the proliferation of state laws driving it, are alarming signs for our democracy.
  — TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
• Some have also called Sat’s comments an attempt at censorship.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
• Some activists, on the other hand, accused the authorities of censorship.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• Stepping up internet controls For Hong Kong residents, a larger concern is that the city’s censorship efforts will not end with the song.
  — Rachel Cheung, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• Posts also focus on censorship by government and tech companies, and include memes about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
  — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
• Forever, Blume lights up speaking about how the film focuses on her work fighting censorship.
  — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 24 Apr. 2023
• But even with this increase in complaints, which the ALA said was due in part to the use of book lists created by censorship groups, America has long had a history of book banning, one that stretches back to at least the 1960s.
  — The Week Staff, theweek, 12 Jan. 2024
• As the GOP’s censorship efforts have swept across the country, Democratic lawmakers have attempted to fight back with anti-book ban bills.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024