How to Use exculpate in a Sentence

exculpate

verb

• I will present evidence that will exculpate my client.
• The court exculpated him after a thorough investigation.
• The fact that the bombardiers are Saudi hardly exculpates the United States.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• There’s so much sound and color here that the self-exculpating scenes fit right in, vivid and convincing.
  — Paul Elie, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
• The president of the United States has made no comment on the deaths of four soldiers except to exculpate himself.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
• Now that shift is being used by Republicans to attempt to exculpate Trump and accuse Mueller.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 24 July 2019
• The new e-mail, which came to light because of Brown’s lawsuit, backs up his claims, showing that the prosecutor at the time, Dan Rizzo, was aware of evidence that could exculpate Brown.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 4 Mar. 2018
• No evidence emerged linking the man to the crime at the school in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, and some testimony exculpated him.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• And, of course, the German military is to be exculpated, as having acted honorably.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• The leaking of the above letter, while apparently an attempt to exculpate him, only makes his awareness more apparent.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
• To accede to the idea that whiteness can be lost, albeit in the name of open-endedness and open-mindedness, is to exculpate the capitalist imperialism that invented race in the first place.
  — Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
• In no part of the statement did the official provide any evidence that would exculpate the Saudi government for Khashoggi’s disappearance.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
• Lloris was keen to exculpate his manager, emphasizing that Mourinho sent them out to be positive and attack.
  — Joshua Law, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Service makes clear that any incriminating evidence was surely scrubbed from the Soviet files in Moscow to exculpate Lenin.
  — Terry Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2017
• However the public chose to remember her, the German government exculpated Mata Hari in 1930.
  — Ray Cavanaugh, Time, 13 Oct. 2017
• The East defined itself in the tradition of communists who had resisted fascism, giving rise to a state doctrine of remembrance that effectively exculpated it from wartime atrocities.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2019
• And that accountability requires more than self-exculpating statements from the cardinals involved.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 29 July 2018
• Thus, Harvey’s magnitude does not exculpate the government of liability for its actions.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• At root, the only political considerations permitted into the gun debate are those that exculpate the owners, distributors, and manufacturers of the guns.
  — Jacob Bacharach, New Republic, 23 Feb. 2018
• Yet for the insanity defense to live up to the moral imperative it was designed to embody — exculpating those with diminished responsibility for their acts — better mechanisms for evaluating release will need to be adopted, Slobogin says.
  — Mac McClelland, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• Prosecutors said examining Suzanne Morphew's body could incriminate or exculpate her husband.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 6 May 2022

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024