How to Use corruption in a Sentence

corruption

noun

• There are rumors of widespread corruption in the city government.
• Netanyahu is on trial in three different corruption cases.
  — Jotam Confino and Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• Critics argue transparency is the only way to prevent corruption.
  — Candy Woodall, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
• These recent news stories seem to suggest a culture of corruption in Orange County that cannot go ignored.
  — Tri Ta, Orange County Register, 24 Oct. 2024
• Stamping out endemic corruption is a key condition for joining the EU.
  — Susie Blann, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2023
• The fear of government corruption is also no surprise—this concern has topped the university’s list every year since 2015.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
• Maza incorporates a recurring visual motif – blood or dark sap that oozes down tree trunks, over thorny cacti and along dusty terrain, a metaphor for the spilling of blood and the inexorable seeping of corruption.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
• Filled with tragedy, suffering, corruption, loss, near death, a measure of redemption, and an ending that could not be considered happy but could have been much worse, the story was just waiting for an author.
  — CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
• In 2019, Fang was sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges.
  — Cate Cadell, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Netanyahu also faces a litany of corruption charges on bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
  — Paul Goldman, NBC News, 16 July 2023
• Was the corruption within City Hall limited to the mayor, or did the city itself break the rules?
  — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• This is the second time Menendez has been charged with corruption.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Can the sports leagues fend off the sort of corruption that resulted in nationwide bans on sports betting in the past?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• After the events of the first film, he was sent by his mother to live on the northern coast of Africa to shield him from the corruption and violence of Rome.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 9 July 2024
• Trump is way right-wing and will redouble his corruption and lies.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
• The tapes were then used later in 1974 in the corruption prosecutions of Nixon's former aides.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2023
• The tapes were then used later in 1974 in the corruption prosecutions of Nixon’s former aides.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
• William Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Kyiv, said that policing corruption during a war is very difficult.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• Khan has been banned as a result of being found guilty last week in a corruption trial and sentenced to three years in prison, the statement said.
  — Sahar Akbarzai, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
• Ukraine’s struggles with the rule of law and corruption will certainly figure heavily in the process.
  — Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
• Paxton's aides accused him of corruption and were all fired or quit after reporting him to the FBI.
  — CBS News, 25 May 2023
• The campaign material is tied to a state corruption probe of Whiting, who has been locked out of his office since June.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
• None of this is new, of course, and Brooks' dramatizing of the tragic consequences of corruption and greed rings true as ever.
  — Emily Bingham, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2023
• The civil corruption trial, which began Monday, could stretch as long as six weeks.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• Patel plays Kid, whose quest for vengeance over the death of his mother and the corruption around him imbues him with the power to settle scores — violently.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2024
• Netanyahu has called the corruption charges against him part of a witch hunt by the courts and media, an argument that resonates with his core supporters.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023
• South African power firm Eskom loses $55 million a month to theft and corruption.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2023
• Willie Cochran, who was indicted on corruption charges and pleaded guilty to wire fraud in federal court.
  — Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
• Menendez, who is on trial in New York on corruption charges, could play the role of spoiler if a significant chunk of voters stick with him.
  — Steven T. Dennis and Erik Wasson / Bloomberg, TIME, 4 June 2024
• His point is that Ukraine has problems with corruption and is no gleaming democracy.
  — WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024