How to Use exonerate in a Sentence

exonerate

verb

• The department released the footage of the shooting that seemed to exonerate Piper within a few hours.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 July 2021
• In that complaint, the board voted 2-1 to exonerate Baller.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2021
• But that evening, Mr. Zeldin sounded all but ready to exonerate him.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Trump wrote on Truth Social after the news broke, although the delay doesn't exonerate him in the case.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
• In 2002, the five men were exonerated of the crime when DNA linked another person to the attack.
  — Jaden Amos, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
• But the grounds on which he will surely be exonerated are also not in doubt.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2020
• He was not exonerated on assigning blame for the brawling to both to neo-Nazis and those protesting the neo-Nazis.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• But even that came out 23 years after the crime and 10 years after they were exonerated.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 June 2024
• The film then turns into a story about a father racing to exonerate his child.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 July 2021
• Even if the numbers change and the House votes to impeach, Mr Trump will probably be exonerated in the Senate.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2019
• Dunn is the sixth person to be exonerated in Elkhart after spending years, even decades, in prison.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2024
• Why did Johnson slip through the cracks in both historic and modern efforts to exonerate victims of the trials?
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
• His lawyers have said evidence that could exonerate Spacey was deleted from the phone.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 5 July 2019
• But Mueller himself did not exonerate Trump, as Pence seemed to suggest.
  — Author: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2020
• But this cannot stand in the way of learning about Garvey’s true history and exonerating him.
  — Justin Hansford, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• She was exonerated in time to compete in the Tokyo Olympics the following summer.
  — Barry Svrluga, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• And Robert Kennedy was determined to exonerate his cousin.
  — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2021
• The fact that he was found guilty does not exonerate all the other past, present and future acts of police brutality.
  — Keith Magee, CNN, 24 May 2021
• One of them was the 1963 shooting and killing of a young Black woman, Cynthia Scott, by a Detroit cop who later was exonerated for his act.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2024
• His method quickly finds its way into the courts, where it is used to exonerate people wrongly accused of crimes and to finger the true culprits.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2022
• Hardin and Clark, who were exonerated in 2017 of a murder Handy falsely linked to satanism, also have filed lawsuits against the city.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2019
• But the Florida Supreme Court ruled those results were not enough to exonerate Zeigler.
  — Jeff Weiner, orlandosentinel.com, 21 July 2021
• At the 12-year mark of his prison sentence, Williams reached out to the Innocence Project with a request for the organization to exonerate him.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• Abe was very clear that much of his effort was to exonerate the name of his grandfather, who had been labelled a class-A war criminal.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
• The lab’s assessments have also been used to help exonerate people who have been wrongly accused of a crime.
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
• Mueller said Trump could not be exonerated on obstruction of justice and left it to Congress to decide what to do.
  — Zeke Miller, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2019
• The special counsel's probe did not exonerate Mr. Trump on his taxes.
  — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2020
• The quintet was exonerated and released from prison in 2002.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
• Twenty years since her conviction, Jimenez has now been exonerated and the charges against her have been dismissed.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023
• The effort to exonerate herself in her own mind leads her to rituals of exertion and self-punishment.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024