Sample sentences for EXONERATE

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Definition

to free someone from blame

or more rarely:

to free someone from an obligation

exonerated = freed (of blame)

exonerated = freed of blame

It really was an amazing artwork—Prisoner 101 looked as real as anyone, but he was made from pieces of the one hundred mugshots Mychal had found of men convicted of murder and then exonerated.
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

exonerated = found innocent

From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

exonerated = freed from an obligation

exonerate = free from blame

Sophie had promised she would do everything in her power to exonerate Langdon once this was over, but Langdon was starting to fear it might not matter.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

exonerate = free of blame

He has the terrible grotesque air, in confessing his sordid baseness, of one who gives an excuse which exonerates him from any real guilt.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh

exonerates = frees (of blame)

'Surely,' said Rose, 'the poor child's story, faithfully repeated to these men, will be sufficient to exonerate him.'
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

exonerate = free from blame

The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence and exonerated Lennon from all blame.
James Joyce -- Dubliners

exonerated = freed (of blame)

"I imagine one cannot exonerate such a man from blame, though he is your brother," said Alexey Alexandrovitch severely.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

exonerate = free (from blame)

But I quite appreciate the fact that we are all strangers to one another and that in those circumstances, nobody can be exonerated without the fullest proof.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

exonerated = found free of blame

My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

exonerated = freed from blame

Broadsides in the streets, signed with her father's name, exonerating the late Stephen Blackpool, weaver, from misplaced suspicion, and publishing the guilt of his own son, with such extenuation as his years and temptation (he could not bring himself to add, his education) might beseech; were of the Present.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times

exonerating = freed (from blame)

exonerated = freed from blame

Okay, so remember how I had that idea for Mychal to make those photographic montages of exonerated prisoners?
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

exonerated = found innocent

Again he has a strange air of exonerating himself from guilt by this shameless confession.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh

exonerating = freeing (of blame)

I don't think it would exonerate him, either with them, or with legal functionaries of a higher grade.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

exonerate = free from blame

...no one of us can be completely exonerated from suspicion.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

exonerated = found free of blame

At the inquest the Coroner exonerated me.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

exonerated = found free of blame

Daisy was telling Mychal that his averaging project shouldn't be about people named Mychal but about imprisoned men who'd later been exonerated.
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

exonerated = found innocent

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