How to Use dereliction in a Sentence

dereliction

noun

• The officer was formally charged with dereliction of duty.
• As part of a plea deal, Ambuhl pleads guilty to one charge of dereliction of duty.
  — CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
• But a refusal to think hard about this is something of a dereliction.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 June 2023
• But to not plan for such a scenario would be dereliction of duty.
  — Barry Tramel, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2020
• But the sense of dereliction has been replaced by unease.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020
• Almost 150 years have passed since Nora slammed that door, but the sound of a woman’s dereliction still alarms us — and thrills us.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
• In the fall of 2021, Mills was found guilty of two counts each of dereliction of duty and falsification.
  — Jane Morice | [e-mail], cleveland, 16 Jan. 2022
• Coy pleaded not guilty to one count of murder, one count of felonious assault and two counts of dereliction of duty last month.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2021
• But for a gossip columnist, that would be dereliction of duty.
  — Gonzalo Soltero, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2020
• In another tweet, Van Duyne accused the Democrats of dereliction of duty.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 18 July 2021
• Eight US Marines faced charges in the deaths, but only one was convicted of a crime, that of negligent dereliction of duty.
  — CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
• Luria, a Navy veteran, said Trump was guilty of dereliction of duty and betrayed his oath of office.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
• But many Republicans say Democrats would rather run than fight, and that quorum breaks amount to a dereliction of duty.
  — Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2021
• Yet, in an odd twist of events, he was soon accused of medical negligence and dereliction of duty and spent nine months in prison.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 13 May 2020
• One of the study’s authors, A. David Paltiel, said that college leaders who do not require vaccines were guilty of a dereliction of duty.
  — Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• He was charged with murder during a felony, felonious assault, and two counts of dereliction of duty.
  — Peter Nickeas and Marshall Cohen, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
• Failing to do so could well be a dereliction of their fiduciary duty.
  — David Atkin, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• So the absolute clear dereliction of duty towards these men and women is on us.
  — Adia Robinson, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2021
• Less than two months later, Russo and two aides each plead guilty to dereliction of duty to settle charges stemming from the audit.
  — cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
• To not use art to process that everyday violence would be a dereliction of duty.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Others reacting to the Court’s dereliction have renewed calls to add more Justices and to end the filibuster.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
• Some had predicted this hearing would prove Trump was guilty of dereliction of duty.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 22 July 2022
• But the one thing that he’s truly hammered home is that cry of dereliction, destruction, and profane (yet not faithless) rage.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The evidence of his dereliction of duty to protect our elections is already in the public sphere.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2019
• This dereliction of its duty is the result of how ruling-class parties have evolved in the neoliberal era.
  — Ashley Smith, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• To do nothing and normalize this behavior would be a dereliction of my oath of office.
  — Rick Green, courant.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• But Whelan was also court-martialed by the Marines in 2008 for charges of larceny, dereliction of duty, and passing bad checks.
  — Amanda Knox, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
• Nothing isolates one’s crime, and all the moral dereliction that comes with it, quite like a story in which the jail time, which hasn’t even started, already seems to be receding into the past.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• However, the Air Force could charge him with offenses such as dereliction of duty.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• Marchand and Meffre, though, love the stations' dereliction.
  — Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024