How to Use censorship in a Sentence

censorship

noun

• Fairall’s lawsuit labels the postponement a form of censorship.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2024
• Surveys show that most Americans do not favor censorship.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
• The firm’s co-founder, Marc Andreessen, has been an outspoken critic of online censorship.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
• What rankled most wasn’t the censorship but the sinister violation of protocol: this ruling came from above.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Intense government censorship and threats against anti-Maduro content means that most Venezuelans get their news through social media.
  — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 17 Nov. 2024
• Greer’s organization is known for its viral protest efforts against internet censorship and surveillance and in support of net neutrality.
  — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2024
• The two men are part of Havana’s San Isidro Movement, founded to resist peacefully the government’s censorship of the arts.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 12 June 2022
• But the mood among many is glum in the face of a new threat: censorship.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
• And how about those censorship laws of which the British ...
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 15 Aug. 2022
• Some on the right say that fears of GOP censorship are overblown.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• And that is an area, on the Russian side of the border, with full censorship.
  — Time, 10 Aug. 2023
• At present, censorship of art and artists is stricter than ever.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
• The art of drag and the freedom of expression that comes with it is under threat of censorship.
  — Tyler Renner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
• By then, censorship was moving out of the courts and into schools and libraries.
  — Joy Lanzendorfer, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Like all of Garner’s writing, the book might be seen as a response to a kind of censorship of feeling.
  — Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
• His gloss on censorship, its past and present, is dizzyingly brisk, and limited to the fate of his own book.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
• To deny them this privilege is the worst form of censorship.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2022
• The alarming number of book bans so far this year shows that the few who support censorship are not backing down.
  — Anthony W. Marx, Dennis M. Walcott, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024
• So why is Kennedy, who purports to care about issues of censorship, speaking at the summit?
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• Because of propaganda and censorship, many of them weren’t aware of the depth and prevalence of poverty in the country.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Walz let Vance get away with Stop the Steal diction and spin the bottle to make censorship and cancel culture Harris’ fault.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
• In any case, this censorship snafu, though soon sorted out, was not what the occasion called for.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• For some, like in Putin’s Russia or in Xi’s China, that’s through active state censorship.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
• During his speech at the British Book Awards, Rushdie spoke out forcefully against censorship.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 16 May 2023
• Dropping a comic strip from our pages is not censorship.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2023
• The public commented via email and in person in support of the arts center and censorship-free art.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
• At the same time, state legislators have sought to solve these problems in the worst possible way: with a wave of censorship of their own.
  — José Antonio Bowen, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Despite the crushing censorship and prison realities that hover on the edges, the heart of this book is warm and gentle.
  — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• In neither instance was the censorship board obliged by law to explain its ruling.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
• Orwell had robust opinions on totalitarianism, surveillance, censorship and class struggle.
  — Will Noble, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024