How to Use condemn in a Sentence

condemn

verb

• The country condemns the use of violence on prisoners.
• The school condemns cheating, and any student caught cheating will be expelled.
• City officials condemned our apartment building and forced us to leave.
• The government condemns all acts of terrorism.
• We strongly condemn this attack against our allies.
• The store and both apartments above have been condemned.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2019
• Props to you for wanting to help her rather than condemn her.
  — cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
• Democrats and voting rights groups were quick to condemn the bill.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 29 May 2021
• Now a crowd had gathered on that same land to condemn what had been done.
  — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
• But that’s no reason to condemn them to the compost heap come fall.
  — Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• The rebuke condemned the cobbler to walk the earth forever.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 July 2017
• The trip was condemned by those who oppose the regime and its brutal practices.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Some choose to ignore it, or condemn those who speak out against it.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 June 2022
• Nine of the men pictured here were condemned to what amounted to a life sentence.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 9 Mar. 2020
• Others said the city had a clear right to condemn the house on behalf of a public project.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
• He was found guilty and was condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 May 2020
• City inspectors have condemned the place and added the address to the list of structures that are to be razed.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland.com, 29 Dec. 2017
• The sprinter did have a message for anyone who might condemn her.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• The move was condemned by critics as an attack on the country's free press.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 6 May 2020
• But Friedberg isn’t here to condemn the band or the album.
  — Cecilia Gigliotti, Longreads, 6 Mar. 2022
• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
  — Robert Graboyes, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• And those in the news media who were quick to condemn Ujiri as the instigator.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
• The city has condemned the concession stand building that sits between the two fields.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
• This isn’t meant to condemn those who hire household workers.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 20 Dec. 2019
• And not be seen as leprous, or as condemned, or as diseased.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 13 June 2019
• Few virtual-choir videos condemn you to staring at the same grid for the entire song.
  — David Pogue, Wired, 4 June 2020
• But Gillibrand has faced the most questions about being too quick to condemn him.
  — Will Weissert, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2019
• Leaders and all decent people have a duty to call it out and condemn it. ...
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2022
• Counter-protesters came out en masse to condemn the hate groups who were scheduled to show up.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Apr. 2018
• Yes, but to condemn him for that would be to miss the layers of meaning that complicate moral judgment.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024