How to Use condone in a Sentence

condone

verb

• And to be clear, most don't condone it on the left or right.
  — Anthony Salvanto, Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2022
• The city doesn't maintain the skatepark but condones it.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• This time the master chief seemed to be able to condone my presence at the work end of the mop.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2016
• But this wasn't to condone those who fall asleep in the audience.
  — Seth Fradkoff, Town & Country, 17 Oct. 2019
• The team did not and will never condone this sort of behavior.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• The ruling noted the SJC doesn't dispute the details of the case or condone what happened.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 17 July 2024
• We were very saddened by this news and do not condone his actions.
  — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2020
• And in its name, Fanon tacitly condoned a lot of killing, and not just of people in uniform.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• There’s no excuse for items promoting racist tropes to be peddled to the public nor for the rest of us to condone them.
  — Jeffrey L. Seglin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• Chappelle didn’t condone it, but argued that the backlash went too far.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2022
• First said in a tweet on Jan. 6 that it was not involved in breaching the Capitol and doesn't condone violence.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2021
• The suit alleges that the police chief at the time, James Debbie, did not take any action and might have even condoned the antics.
  — Scott Berson, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
• The newly pink-haired Ms. Munley said her co-workers condone her new look.
  — Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• On one hand, the magazine doesn’t condone prison escapes.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
• The school had its share of racial incidents, but he was never involved and wasn’t seen as condoning them.
  — ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2019
• Losing a friend is bound to hurt, but Miss Manners cannot condone doing it with an insult.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• But while there’s no need to condone book burning and plenty of reasons to condemn it, it shouldn’t be punished by law.
  — Suzanne Nossel, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
• It was done in a way that was completely condoned by the French fashion industry.
  — Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 July 2015
• This wasn’t the first time Barkley had condoned violence with NBA players either.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 2 May 2018
• Gosar said his video was an attempt by his staff to reach a younger audience and was not meant to condone violence.
  — Mariam Khan, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2021
• There are dipping sauces, but the restaurant doesn’t exactly condone their use.
  — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2020
• The 2nd Amendment was never meant to condone murdering kids.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The policy states that the U.S. acknowledges, but does not condone, China's claim of sovereignty over the Taiwan.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2022
• Giving them their rightful place among the game’s greats is not the same as condoning or absolving any cheating.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• Here's some bad news for those who condone this or uses it theres not a workplace on Earth that will provide this to its employees.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 26 Apr. 2018
• Fairfax Republicans Chair Steve Knotts said in a statement that the party does not condone the laughter in the video.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• More often, nobody knows how to talk about an attitude toward food that the entire sport seems to condone.
  — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2021
• The school has no tradition or culture that would ever allow or condone what happened to Chessy.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 3 Apr. 2018
• There is no sacred scripture that condones the deaths of innocent people.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 6 Oct. 2024
• Even as leaders condoned ever-riskier behavior, none seemed to want the conflict to spiral out of control.
  — Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024