Sample sentences for CONDEMN - verbalworkout.com

3 meanings

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1 —as in:
She condemned their plan

Definition

express strong criticism

We condemn racism wherever it is found.

condemn = strongly criticize

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The United Nations condemned North Korea's development of nuclear weapons.

condemned = strongly criticized

She condemned his behavior as reckless.

condemned = strongly criticized

He condemned openly Mr. Brown's policy of compromise and accommodation.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

condemned = strongly criticized

When my father condemned doctors as minions of Satan, Richard turned to Kami and gave a small laugh, as if Dad were joking.
Tara Westover -- Educated

condemned = strongly criticized

A moment's silence passed, and then Stacey, his eyes cold and condemning, said quietly, "It was you all right, T.J. It was you."
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

condemning = expressing strong criticism

They little guessed what deadly purport lurked in those self-condemning words.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

condemning = expressing strong criticism of

The next day he went on a live show on the Voice of America and angrily condemned the attacks.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

condemned = strongly criticized

There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

condemn = criticize

On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

condemnation = expression of strong criticism

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

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2 —as in:
was condemned to life in prison

Definition

force into an undesired activity or situation — such as to legally sentence someone to punishment

or:

find guilty — especially in court (and sometimes to death)

or:

provide the means of finding guilty

The murderer was condemned to death by injection.

condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Her devotion to her sick husband condemned her to a lonely existence

condemned = forced into an undesired situation

Her strange behavior condemned her in they eyes of the community.

condemned = proved guilt

He was condemned to ten years in prison.

condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)

According to the law ... prisoner Number... is condemned to death.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

condemned = sentenced (assigned legal punishment)

Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee;
Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

condemned = found legally guilty

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

condemn = force into an undesired situation

Eleven years ago you created a legend about three men who had been condemned to death for treachery.
George Orwell -- 1984

condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)

Can we condemn her to a life imprisonment just to satisfy our own greed?
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

condemn = force into an undesired situation

A single touch would kill a mortal instantly, condemn a great god to an eternity of torment.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

condemn = force into an undesired situation

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3 —as in:
condemned the building

Definition

an official government finding that a building is not suitable to be occupied

The building was condemned by the inspector.

condemned = found a building not suitable to be occupied

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Homeless people used to sleep there, but the building was condemned as unsafe and torn down.

condemned = found a building not suitable to be occupied

I began to dread those calls, since every time we heard from them, there was a new problem: a mudslide had washed away what was left of the stairs; our neighbors the Freemans were trying to get the house condemned; Maureen had fallen off the porch and gashed her head.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

condemned = an official government finding that a building is not suitable to be occupied

Since then Deering Highlands has been a ghost town: avoided, forgotten, condemned.
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium

condemned = declared not suitable for occupation

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Less commonly:

In law, condemn can also refer to a legal real estate procedure in which the government forces someone to sell property to the government.

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