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.
• 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
• Many great artists have a conscience too, but none greater than his.
  — Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• The physicist is the moral conscience that runs through Rhodes’ book.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Only the rich can play the role of a global conscience on climate change.
  — Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• The night will forever be engraved in the conscience of sport.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 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
• So that’s an issue for the balance sheet, not the conscience.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• Every day was a slog through his own guilty conscience.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• Words of calm and conscience were always one of his special gifts.
  — Adam Geller, Chron, 14 Apr. 2022
• This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief.
  — Fox News, 30 June 2018
• Rice wrote a letter to the judge asking him to follow his conscience.
  — NBC News, 18 Oct. 2021
• This was made worse by those who sought profits over conscience.
  — Donna Frye Community Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2020
• Shopping with a conscience is one way to make small choices that add up to big changes.
  — Jaime Stathis, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
• Love, too, from far away for the teenage clerk Martin and the weight of his conscience.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 10 Apr. 2021
• Something in his conscience, or gut, impels him to do the work.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Jan. 2022
• And men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 1 Nov. 2017
• The movies are an industry, a con game with a half-guilty conscience.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• Maggie is not impressed that his conscience can drown out the screams of torture.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• Golf was never far from the sports world’s conscience this summer.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 21 July 2019
• Each of us feels called upon by our conscience to sign this letter.
  — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Gordon agrees, but also believes the whole conscience rights thing is a bit of a farce.
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Williams had no conscience in discerning between a good shot and a bad shot.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
• My white guilt — our white guilt — only helps to ease our own conscience.
  — Elizabeth Diane MacK, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• So she had lied to him, but so had he to her, they were quits on that score and his conscience was calm.
  — Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel, (1950) 1958
• This one more or less asks you to turn off your memory and/or your conscience.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• Player stats got bundled with off-the-court conscience.
  — Peter Mehlman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024