How to Use condone in a Sentence

condone

verb

• We were very saddened by this news and do not condone his actions.
  — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2020
• But this wasn't to condone those who fall asleep in the audience.
  — Seth Fradkoff, Town & Country, 17 Oct. 2019
• These are avoidable penalties that cannot be condoned.
  — Zach Berman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• This time the master chief seemed to be able to condone my presence at the work end of the mop.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2016
• The team did not and will never condone this sort of behavior.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Chappelle didn’t condone it, but argued that the backlash went too far.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2022
• Health does not promote or condone weight loss that's not under the care of a healthcare provider.
  — Julia Ries, Health, 9 Apr. 2025
• Health does not promote or condone weight loss that's not under the care of a healthcare provider.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 30 Nov. 2024
• The barra and its leaders do not condone any form of violence.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2025
• When will the district and the board stop condoning this kind of behavior?
  — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
• To be clear, Miss Manners does not condone the practice.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
• There are dipping sauces, but the restaurant doesn’t exactly condone their use.
  — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2020
• Gosar said his video was an attempt by his staff to reach a younger audience and was not meant to condone violence.
  — Mariam Khan, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2021
• The school had its share of racial incidents, but he was never involved and wasn’t seen as condoning them.
  — ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2019
• And in its name, Fanon tacitly condoned a lot of killing, and not just of people in uniform.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• And anyone who refuses to speak out against Hamas is condoning evil.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025
• There’s no excuse for items promoting racist tropes to be peddled to the public nor for the rest of us to condone them.
  — Jeffrey L. Seglin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• There is no sacred scripture that condones the deaths of innocent people.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 6 Oct. 2024
• But while there’s no need to condone book burning and plenty of reasons to condemn it, it shouldn’t be punished by law.
  — Suzanne Nossel, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
• That was decades before AI’s use – both condoned by professors and not – was on the rise.
  — Ira Porter, Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2025
• More often, nobody knows how to talk about an attitude toward food that the entire sport seems to condone.
  — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2021
• Yet politicians continue to do it, or encourage it, or condone it, or listen to it.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 2 Sep. 2021
• It was done in a way that was completely condoned by the French fashion industry.
  — Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 July 2015
• Giving them their rightful place among the game’s greats is not the same as condoning or absolving any cheating.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• But while few of us condone theft or arson or violence, don’t get sidetracked by opportunists and fools.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2020
• Losing a friend is bound to hurt, but Miss Manners cannot condone doing it with an insult.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• Trey said the students did not condone anyone using violence to express their views.
  — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
• No school would provide landing space for a student’s fighter jet, or condone the disruption the jet’s use would cause.
  — Matt Parker, Wired, 23 Jan. 2020
• Few would condone taking their neighbor’s jewelry to cover a credit card debt.
  — Robertas Bakula, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
• The line between condoning violence and making light of it was slippery.
  — Shane Harris, Samuel Oakford and Chris Dehghanpoor, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023