How to Use exonerate in a Sentence

exonerate

verb
  • But that also seems to be the thing that exonerates him.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Barry Odom goes from exonerated from the entire state, to most beloved guy in the state in the span of a month.
    — Brian Stultz, ajc, 19 Nov. 2017
  • Hardy said that all the new tests exonerated Swinton leaving the state with no choice but to ask for a nolle on the case.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Both Veronique and Tom die in a car crash, but not before Tom exonerates Mie.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The men were later exonerated of the crime and this year have sued Trump for defamation.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The department released the footage of the shooting that seemed to exonerate Piper within a few hours.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 July 2021
  • In that complaint, the board voted 2-1 to exonerate Baller.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2021
  • But that evening, Mr. Zeldin sounded all but ready to exonerate him.
    — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Trump wrote on Truth Social after the news broke, although the delay doesn't exonerate him in the case.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • But the drugs aren't likely to play a role in the decision to charge or exonerate the officers who killed the unarmed black man.
    — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 22 May 2018
  • In 2002, the five men were exonerated of the crime when DNA linked another person to the attack.
    — Jaden Amos, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But the grounds on which he will surely be exonerated are also not in doubt.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2020
  • He was not exonerated on assigning blame for the brawling to both to neo-Nazis and those protesting the neo-Nazis.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • But even that came out 23 years after the crime and 10 years after they were exonerated.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 June 2024
  • The five men, who are Black and Latino, were exonerated in 2002 after spending more than a decade in prison.
    — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • As for the nine patrolmen who opened fire, they were exonerated of all charges in a 1969 trial.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The film then turns into a story about a father racing to exonerate his child.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 July 2021
  • But the sketchy way Comey exonerated Clinton still grates on them.
    — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Stubbs was exonerated in 2013 after more than a decade in prison.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Even if the numbers change and the House votes to impeach, Mr Trump will probably be exonerated in the Senate.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Dunn is the sixth person to be exonerated in Elkhart after spending years, even decades, in prison.
    — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2024
  • Why did Johnson slip through the cracks in both historic and modern efforts to exonerate victims of the trials?
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
  • And only now — when Fran Keller is 67 and Dan is 75 — has the couple been fully exonerated.
    — Avi Selk, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • And only now — when Fran Keller is 67 and Dan is 75 — has the couple been fully exonerated.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2017
  • His lawyers have said evidence that could exonerate Spacey was deleted from the phone.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 5 July 2019
  • Kelly has been exonerated on charges in the past, and XXX's case is still pending trial.
    — refinery29.com, 26 May 2018
  • No vast sums of money were awarded (the Kings sought only $100), and Ray was not exonerated.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But Mueller himself did not exonerate Trump, as Pence seemed to suggest.
    — Author: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • That finding goes a long way to exonerate the ancient Rapanui in the case of their own population crash.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018
  • But this cannot stand in the way of learning about Garvey’s true history and exonerating him.
    — Justin Hansford, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023

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