How to Use exonerate in a Sentence

exonerate

verb

• The department released the footage of the shooting that seemed to exonerate Piper within a few hours.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 July 2021
• In that complaint, the board voted 2-1 to exonerate Baller.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2021
• But that evening, Mr. Zeldin sounded all but ready to exonerate him.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• The film then turns into a story about a father racing to exonerate his child.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 July 2021
• Why did Johnson slip through the cracks in both historic and modern efforts to exonerate victims of the trials?
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
• But this cannot stand in the way of learning about Garvey’s true history and exonerating him.
  — Justin Hansford, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• And Robert Kennedy was determined to exonerate his cousin.
  — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2021
• His method quickly finds its way into the courts, where it is used to exonerate people wrongly accused of crimes and to finger the true culprits.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2022
• But the Florida Supreme Court ruled those results were not enough to exonerate Zeigler.
  — Jeff Weiner, orlandosentinel.com, 21 July 2021
• Abe was very clear that much of his effort was to exonerate the name of his grandfather, who had been labelled a class-A war criminal.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
• The lab’s assessments have also been used to help exonerate people who have been wrongly accused of a crime.
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
• Twenty years since her conviction, Jimenez has now been exonerated and the charges against her have been dismissed.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023
• Not all of history’s war criminals try to exonerate themselves on the app.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Marilyn Mulero was the 190th person to be exonerated from death row.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• But that doesn’t explain everything or exonerate Hawaiian Airlines or the state of Hawaii.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2021
• The Innocence Project of Florida are among the supporters who have believed Schofield's story and have worked to exonerate him.
  — ABC News, 22 Sep. 2022
• With Spacey legally exonerated, is his claim that producers are now lining up to cast him true?
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
• Modi has denied the claims and was exonerated in 2012 by an Indian court.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 27 June 2023
• The court battles lasted more than a decade, but all official inquiries exonerated the crew.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• None of this is meant to exonerate Kipyokei or her agent, Gianni Demadonna, who, for the record, claimed to have no knowledge of his athlete’s misdeeds in an interview with Letsrun.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 27 Oct. 2022
• Knight, along with his paralegal Meri Wright, have experienced highs and lows in their pursuit to exonerate Glossip.
  — Brynn Gingras, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
• What did Yusef Salaam do after being exonerated? Salaam was tried as a juvenile and convicted of rape and assault.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Schmidt also opposed an effort to exonerate Lamar Johnson, who was freed in February after 28 years in prison.
  — CBS News, 23 June 2023
• In his efforts to chronicle the memories of the victims, Mr. Saotome never tried to exonerate Japan for its culpability in the war.
  — New York Times, 15 May 2022
• Prior to the vote, Ravnsborg sent letters to lawmakers before the vote urging them to exonerate him, the Argus Leader reported.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2022
• Ha and Yi capture the sweep, righteousness and consequence of the effort to exonerate Chol Soo with spirit and fascinating details.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• The family of a Georgia man killed by a sheriff’s deputy in October, three years after he was exonerated and freed from prison, has filed a federal lawsuit against the sheriff’s office and the deputy.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
• That treatment on the road is likely to continue until more is known and he’s either exonerated or suspended.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• When her son was arrested, Fried resigned from the PAC and concentrated on exonerating him.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Trump has argued on on the social media platform Truth Social he should also be exonerated.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024