conscience
Example Sentences
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I admire the image, but my conscience nags that one should have to trek halfway around the world to see such a thing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
"We trusted a man without a conscience, and my son paid the price," she wrote.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
The written word compels you to think and a heightened conscience is one of the essential elements required to bring about change.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Lestat’s figment doubles as his love’s guilty conscience and a glamorized memory.
From Salon • May 26, 2024
As to my own will or conscience, impassioned grief had trampled one and stifled the other.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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