How to Use conscience in a Sentence

conscience

noun

• The thief must have had an attack of conscience, because he returned the wallet with nothing missing from it.
• Let your conscience be your guide.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
• Many great artists have a conscience too, but none greater than his.
  — Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• But Derek had to vote his conscience.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
• And what can the rest of us who do still have a moral conscience do about this?
  — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
• His word was conscience and my word was witness.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
• But even those shock the conscience of this country.
  — NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
• But all this rolls into a play where conscience is king.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
• Because at some point, your conscience has to kick in.
  — ABC News, 21 Dec. 2025
• Two events set off this crisis of conscience.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
• There are so many issues in there that should rock our consciences.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 15 Jan. 2024
• But what about when your heart is pitch-black and your conscience is absent?
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
• But, again, the weight on her shoulders, and on her conscience, is very, very heavy.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 May 2021
• Words of calm and conscience were always one of his special gifts.
  — Adam Geller, Chron, 14 Apr. 2022
• Yet even in that state, there’s a small part of his conscience that endures to the very end.
  — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
• But the church needs to be very close to the state in order to be the conscience of the state.
  — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 12 Nov. 2025
• Yet, all of these issues are the result of a guilty conscience.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
• Something in his conscience, or gut, impels him to do the work.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Jan. 2022
• The physicist is the moral conscience that runs through Rhodes’ book.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• There are sweating pockets of male shame and grease spots on the conscience.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2020
• The movies are an industry, a con game with a half-guilty conscience.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• The absence of answers should shake the conscience of the world.
  — David Miliband, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
• So that’s an issue for the balance sheet, not the conscience.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief.
  — Fox News, 30 June 2018
• Our country is in a crisis of conscience.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2025
• Love, too, from far away for the teenage clerk Martin and the weight of his conscience.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 10 Apr. 2021
• Only the rich can play the role of a global conscience on climate change.
  — Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• His stance as the ER’s conscience is crumbling.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
• The use of such symbols deepened the shock to the conscience many in the nation felt.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• Yet Weil would not surrender her conscience to any creed.
  — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025