How to Use condone in a Sentence

condone

verb
Definition of condonenext
Synonyms for condonenext
  • The city doesn't maintain the skatepark but condones it.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • And to be clear, most don't condone it on the left or right.
    — Anthony Salvanto, Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • We were very saddened by this news and do not condone his actions.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • On one hand, the magazine doesn’t condone prison escapes.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
  • It was done in a way that was completely condoned by the French fashion industry.
    — Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 July 2015
  • The school had its share of racial incidents, but he was never involved and wasn’t seen as condoning them.
    — ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The line between condoning violence and making light of it was slippery.
    — Shane Harris, Samuel Oakford and Chris Dehghanpoor, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • There are dipping sauces, but the restaurant doesn’t exactly condone their use.
    — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And then she told him all—told him the truth word by word, without attempting to shield herself or condone her error.
    — Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, 1912
  • The school has no tradition or culture that would ever allow or condone what happened to Chessy.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The high school administration was not aware of and does not condone any censorship of political views on the part of our students.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 12 June 2017
  • 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
  • But while few of us condone theft or arson or violence, don’t get sidetracked by opportunists and fools.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2020
  • Nobody condones attacks such as the setting on fire of a man who argued with pro-democracy protesters.
    — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 23 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Yet politicians continue to do it, or encourage it, or condone it, or listen to it.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The newly pink-haired Ms. Munley said her co-workers condone her new look.
    — Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
  • So Council only has itself to blame when people decide to use channels that are not condoned by the powerful.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
  • No school would provide landing space for a student’s fighter jet, or condone the disruption the jet’s use would cause.
    — Matt Parker, Wired, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The company, of course, doesn’t condone this particular use of its software.
    — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 23 July 2019
  • Sharpton said the family does not condone violence or looting.
    — Justin Carissimo, CBS News, 4 June 2020
  • Some add that anyone who allows offensive speakers a platform is condoning their wicked ideas.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019

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