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.
• Human rights groups called him a prisoner of conscience.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• The Reverend’s not there to nudge his conscience, but Charlie makes a fine stand-in.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021
• The time to examine one’s conscience or faith is before signing a contract.
  — Michael J. Broyde, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country’s moral conscience.
  — Andrew Meldrum, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
• South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country's moral conscience.
  — Andrew Meldrum, Chron, 27 Dec. 2021
• Their dad, also Kevin, described his oldest son as having no conscience.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2022
• State and federal laws already allow health care providers to refuse to provide some services based on conscience.
  — Jim Saunders, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• Like the grievous past that will eternally follow its women, Diallo’s tale of survival lingers on your conscience.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
• Millions wore these bracelets, keeping the issue in the public conscience and applying continuous pressure on the government.
  — Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• In today’s polarized times, votes of conscience are now seen by too many partisans as acts of betrayal from the imperative to win and keep power by whatever means possible.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• The elegance of his path-breaking example on screen opened the hearts, minds and wallets of the moviegoing public and tugged at the reluctant, mercantile conscience of the film industry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Molly serves as Stan’s conscience—an attribute his psyche has lacked—while Ms. Mara, in the calm simplicity of her performance, serves as the movie’s soul.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
• And what can the rest of us who do still have a moral conscience do about this?
  — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
• The use of such symbols deepened the shock to the conscience many in the nation felt.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• The physicist is the moral conscience that runs through Rhodes’ book.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• Love, too, from far away for the teenage clerk Martin and the weight of his conscience.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 10 Apr. 2021
• Many great artists have a conscience too, but none greater than his.
  — Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• So that’s an issue for the balance sheet, not the conscience.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• Well, one of the things a project scientist does is act as the conscience for the science.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 11 July 2022
• But, again, the weight on her shoulders, and on her conscience, is very, very heavy.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 May 2021
• Yet, all of these issues are the result of a guilty conscience.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
• There are sweating pockets of male shame and grease spots on the conscience.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2020
• Something in his conscience, or gut, impels him to do the work.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Jan. 2022
• The movies are an industry, a con game with a half-guilty conscience.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• Only the rich can play the role of a global conscience on climate change.
  — Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• So does the too-muchness of the Burtons’ own lives, all that beauty and conscience.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Luckily for me, Sarah serves as the conscience of the story.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 8 Dec. 2022
• The night will forever be engraved in the conscience of sport.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2021
• This was the act of someone with no propriety, no limitations, and no conscience.
  — Al Pacino, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024