Example sentences for: condemned

How can you use “condemned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The ruling came out of a 1997 lawsuit filed by condemned inmate Leo Alexander Jones, who argued that the electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment.

  • But because everybody was playing offense--all condemned the assault--nobody scored.

  • As recalled by Peter Prichard in his book, The Making of McPaper , Neuharth condemned the "old journalism of despair," a "derisive technique of leaving readers discouraged, or mad, or indignant."

  • This is no Last Temptation . There are no troubling scenes of lust with Mary Magdalene or, as in a notorious poem that was condemned for blasphemy in England some years ago, with the Roman soldiery.

  • The transformation of the inheritance tax into the "death penalty" provides more grist for satirists who wonder whether Republicans, having condemned the "marriage penalty" for discouraging marriage, now worry that the inheritance tax is discouraging death.


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