How to Use censor in a Sentence

censor

1 of 2 noun
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  • Government censors deleted all references to the protest.
  • The urge to censor is at the heart of Clinton’s demands.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Meanwhile, my decade-long struggle with the censors had come to a head.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The new rules do not limit the scope of a censor’s verdict to a film’s content alone.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
  • At the same time the Chinese censors come in, in a matter of minutes, to delete those messages.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 4 June 2023
  • Can Marcia Gay Harden please have a word with the censors?
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • As the Freudians have long told us, the real censor isn’t so much the flesh-and-blood mother as the one inside.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Snow's set was filled with the kind of moves that once made TV censors decree that Elvis be shown only from the waist up.
    — Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023
  • Over the past three years, the journal has prepared 12 issues, but only one has made it past the censors.
    — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • After the story broke, Facebook and Twitter moved to censor links to the report.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The move prompted censors to scour past films for content that might violate the law.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Demi and Kenny smash their black censor boxes against each other and the first rumblings of chaos strike the beach.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The drive to challenge, ban or censor books has not only changed the lives of librarians across the nation.
    — Nicole A. Cooke, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
  • There’s no feeling of a censor sitting on your shoulder.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • But books could acquire a certain cachet from their placement in the censor’s crosshairs.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • Its priests are the censors, the propagandists, the secret police.
    — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The urge some students feel to self-censor is complicated.
    — Jennifer Miller, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Russia’s Internet censor, Roskomnadzor, banned the list based on the court ban on the network.
    — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2021
  • By its ninth installment, the Treehouse Of Horror team was feeling saucy enough to straight-up murder the Fox censor.
    — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • That is in contrast to Malaysia, which has picked the film as its Oscar contender but where censors have cut so much out of it that Eu has disowned the local print.
    — Janine Stein, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • For the next twenty-three years, Hays held the political censors at bay and studio fixers kept the scandals out of the headlines.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
  • In 1826, he was allowed to return to Moscow—with Tsar Nicholas I as his personal censor.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • However to remain in the band and self-censor will gnaw my conscience, erode my integrity.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • Why would a major record company censor its own artist?
    — Tim Ingham, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The press censor—for so long a malevolent presence in the lives of even the most pacific journalists—was largely set aside.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Trying to grow a business in the midst of such rhetoric would prepare the Warner brothers to deal with industry censors and moral crusaders.
    — Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Your opponent will be deemed a censor, and collapse into chaos.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The movie, which opened globally in July and has raked in $1.34 billion at the box office, was the latest targeted by the region’s censors.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Many of the harshest comments appeared to have been removed by online censors by Monday.
    — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • All of this is having an effect: Librarians in many places are starting to self-censor.
    — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2022
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censor

2 of 2 verb
  • The station censored her speech before broadcasting it.
  • His report was heavily censored.
  • Some of the content could get censored if the country or foreign market doesn’t want a kiss in it.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The White House was ordering the social-media sites to censor me.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • One more note, by the way, about the angry push to censor the novel upon its release is worth adding here.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Living as an artist and a filmmaker in Malaysia, we are all used to having our work and voice censored.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, Li’s account has become a go-to source for news censored in China.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The song was censored and the singer’s online accounts suspended.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The censure is not an effort to censor Dan Quirk, council members said.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Don’t censor yourself; just write what comes into your mind.
    — Tess Brigham, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • At least 19 states have laws censoring school lessons related to race.
    — Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The policy has been used to censor a range of films in China, including ghost and horror movies.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Any discussion of the event is strictly censored and controlled.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union did not just censor modern artists and writers.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • The phrase is not defined, which may prompt professors to censor themselves out of fear of violating the law.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • The people who censor our shows are all conditioned to a very scared way of thinking, which is reflected in the kind of programs the networks put on.
    — William Grimes, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Some social media posts and first-person accounts of the flooding were censored.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In place of facts, extremists in Florida want to erase our full history and censor our truths.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 July 2023
  • But Chima warns that even if the court rules in Twitter’s favor, that is likely to be just the beginning of a much longer effort on the part of the government to censor speech.
    — Wired, 14 July 2022
  • Still, if women keep allowing fear and ambivalence and self-protection to censor the truth, where’s the progress in that?
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • But his attempt to censor Fannie Lou Hamer only raised her profile.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Lowell noted in his letter that while the faces of other people in the photographs were blocked with black boxes, Hunter Biden's face was not censored.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
  • Planned Parenthood pages were censored more than 50 times in Albuquerque while Blocksi was in use.
    — Todd Feathers, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In other words, Musk will have no choice but to effectively censor people.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Good luck to anyone who tries censoring the movie for airlines or television.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Artists should never have to censor themselves for fear that their work will be turned against them in some future criminal proceeding.
    — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 27 July 2022
  • By Wednesday, many social media posts critical of the fire had been either censored or deleted, Reuters checks showed.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And his decision over the weekend to censor tweets in Turkey may have been his most egregious violation yet.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
  • Kesha captioned one photo that featured her breasts censored with hearts.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
  • These letters, as in any penitentiary institution in the world, are read and censored.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 1 June 2023

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