CONDEMNATION in a Sentence

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For CONDEMNATION, below is one of 169 sentences:
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONDEMNATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
condemnation
 n.  blame
Classic Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1  She hated the Carpetbaggers and Scallawags who were getting rich with ease while she struggled, but she said nothing in condemnation of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  "Yes," answered Scarlett fiercely, ready to pounce upon the old lady at the first words of condemnation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  But when she brought about the death of Frank and Tommy and jeopardized the lives of a dozen other men, their dislike flamed into public condemnation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  She could not endure the tears of the one, the silent condemnation of the other.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
5  That isn't meant as a condemnation of Gopher Prairie, and it may be a condemnation of me.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  Even to the better class of Afro-Americans the crime of rape is so revolting they have too often taken the white man's word and given lynch law neither the investigation nor condemnation it deserved.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  He did not pass such thoughts without severe condemnation of himself.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Strange gods were addressed in condemnation of the early hours necessary to correct war.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  I received Lanyon's condemnation partly in a dream; it was partly in a dream that I came home to my own house and got into bed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
10  There were some groans and hisses, but the general sense of honour was much too strong for the condemnation of a man unheard.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
11  The Grand Master had collected the suffrages, and now in a solemn tone demanded of Rebecca what she had to say against the sentence of condemnation, which he was about to pronounce.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  I refuse to make a mountain of it, and I refuse anybody's moral condemnation or prohibition.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  His condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery of things, and which we call life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
14  The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
15  This is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is Progress.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Mr Adams' speech yesterday was very loud in condemnation of the media.
2  There's been no official condemnation of the bombing.
3  These kinds of cases are formally called regulatory takings or inverse condemnation cases.
4  The Vatican released a statement condemning the recent terrorist attacks.
5  The government issued a statement condemning the killings.
6  Most people are willing to condemn violence of any sort as evil.
7  Political leaders united yesterday to condemn the latest wave of violence.
8  Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless.
9  Here is the social democrat refusing to condemn the absurdities he chronicles so well; or simply producing half-baked observations.
10  They are more than twice as likely as other Americans to condemn gambling as 'always morally wrong.'
11  To say that religion is the opiate of the people is to condemn religion as a drug that keeps the people quiet and submissive to those in power.
12  As anti-Japanese protests roiled dozens of cities across China over the weekend, Chinese state media has stepped up to condemn the violence.
13  The terrorist action has been condemned as an act of barbarism and cowardice.
14  He condemned the government's action as immoral.
15  He condemned the protesters' use of violence against the police.