Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use censorship in a sentence

37 example sentences · noun

Censorship means the use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated. Example: “They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.”

Examples of censorship by meaning

nounThe use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable...

  • During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942.1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52

More sentences with censorship

  • They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.From the entry attack
  • The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.From the entry omission
  • If you self-host your website, you protect it from censorship.From the entry self-host
  • When the allegations were proven false, the censorship machine moved on to targeting mis-, dis-, and malinformation.2025 April 15, Christine Menedis, “The Blob”, in Why the World Doesn’t Make Sense: Reclaiming the Liberty You Didn’t Know You Lost…. From the entry MDM
  • The investigation of low-regularity inextendibility criteria is motivated by the strong cosmic censorship conjecture.2015, Jan Sbierski, “The $C^0$-inextendibility of the Schwarzschild spacetime and the spacelike diameter in Lorentzian Geometry”, in…. From the entry inextendibility
  • China's Golden Shield has long been a byword for internet censorship.2010 January 13, Tim Stevens, “China's cyberwar goes beyond Google”, in The Guardian. From the entry social engineering
  • “Such templates I heard only in the 70s and 80s — extreme nonprofessionalism and surprisingly visible censorship.2007 May 19, C. J. Chivers, “Eviction Notice Is Latest Russian Move Against Journalists”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry 70s
  • Commercialism tends to convert criticism into censorship, and critique into apologetic argumentality .2003, Herbert Brün, Mark Enslin, Susan Parenti, Irresistible Observations, →ISBN. From the entry argumentality
  • I was delighted to see A Woman's Place take a stand against censorship.1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8. From the entry neatly
  • The libertarian Cato Institute calls the practice "censorship by proxy."[2025 September 18, Bobby Allyn, “Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning'”, in Television, NPR…. From the entry jawboning
  • I do not believe in censorship in that way.2023 April 26, Benjamin Lee, quoting Steven Spielberg, “Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity”, in The…. From the entry sacrosanct
  • Countering this in international media by offering more balanced views for a global audience is near impossible as censorship is rife.2023 February 21, Chandran Nair, “Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media”, in The Diplomat. From the entry compact
  • At the center of the controversy is Augur, an app built to prevent censorship and allow people to create prediction markets.2018 July 28, “The Assassination Marketplace Built on Blockchain”, in SecureWorld, United States, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025. From the entry assassination marketplace
  • The targets suggest the attackers are sympathetic to the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall of China.2015 March 31, Dan Goodin, “Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 01 Apr 2015. From the entry attacker
  • We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The…. From the entry spurious
  • As far as political censorship of the drama went, being unblasphemously serious could be more offensive than being blasphemously silly.2008 April 15, Laurie Maguire, How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry unblasphemously
  • Not quite censorship, but not exactly unfettered commentary, either.2008 July 7, Noam Cohen, “Poof! You’re Unpublished.”, in The New York Times. From the entry disemvowelment
  • My eighth-grade term paper was on censorship, Tipper Gore's assault on free speech in the music industry, and the Dead Kennedys.2001, Kirk Read, How I Learned to Snap: A Small-town Coming-out and Coming-of-age Story. From the entry sciencey
  • This is community censorship in one of its worst forms.1957, William O. Douglas, Roth v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, pages 354 U.S. 476, 512. From the entry freedom of expression
  • Stations would not risk broadcasting anything arising outside the studio, as there would be no editorial or censorship power.1935, Alison Reppy, Air Law Review, volume 6, page 86. From the entry nemo
  • The practice of self-censorship serves as a preemptive measure to avoid direct censorship or persecution when governments in autocratizing countries tighten their grip.2026, “Unraveling The Democratic Era?”, in V-Dem Institute, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026, page 13. From the entry preemptive
  • The call for azadi was semantically rich, able to incorporate within it a critique of different forms of patriarchal violence, control, humiliation and censorship.2021, Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Bruno Sena Martins, The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity, Milton…. From the entry azadi
  • Dr Nowak noted that in this prison as well as others he visited in Lhasa there was: “a palpable level of fear and censorship”.[2018 October 3, “CHINA’S CONTROL STATE IN LHASA”, in International Campaign for Tibet, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2018. From the entry Qüxü
  • He decided to build a large sculpture modeled on the line that he would call “Redline” — a playful rumination on the idea of censorship.2016 August 26, Javier A. Hernández, “Ai Weiwei Planned to Sculpt a ‘Redline.’ Chinese Censors Say He Crossed One.”, in The New York…. From the entry Yinchuan
  • Alexander says she has been accused of censorship "worse than a Syrian dictator" over her quest to have gang-related videos taken down.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry unfettered
  • Julien Pain, head of the Internet desk at Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group which tracks censorship around the world, put it more bluntly.2006 October 23, Tom Zeller Jr., “The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea”, in The New York Times. From the entry black hole
  • The Lop county official confirmed reports from overseas groups that the Chinese authorities were continuing a program of heavy religious control and censorship in Xinjiang.2004, “THE INTERNET IN CHINA: ATOOL FOR FREEDOM OR SUPPRESSION?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Committee on…. From the entry lop
  • Regulative censorships can be amended or revolutionized in ways that raise or lower bodycounts, numbers of books banned or citizens ghettoed or gulaged.1988, Sue Curry Jansen, Censorship: The Knot that Binds Power and Knowledge (Communication and Society), New York, N.Y.; Oxford…. From the entry gulag
  • It may be consciously changed as in the censorship of certain items, or it may be a reflection of the writer's lack of perception.1975 December 20, Satya, “Uncensoring Shakespeare's Sonnets”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 16. From the entry consciously
  • His delay in reaching Peking was due to the Japanese holding him in Tsing-tau after its fall as a method of censorship.[1914 November 19 [1914 November 18], “TSING-TAU CAPTURED BY BAYONET CHARGE; Japanese at the Brink of German Trenches Before White Flag…. From the entry Qingdao
  • In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves.1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, page 301. From the entry concomitant
  • Other notable Canadian censorship attempts are have had such strong Streisand Effects, they might as well have directed and starred in the romantic drama Prince Of Tides.2008 November 19, Joshua Errett, “Khalid mosque sings Streisand”, in Now, volume 28, number 12, →ISSN. From the entry Streisand effects
  • It thus neatly avoided acknowledging the role being played by the women's movement as a force for censorship (and the rather sordid past of A Woman's Place itself).1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8. From the entry neatly
  • In all periods of history, when government or society has put limits on public discussion, those who wish to circumvent censorship resort to the use of esoteric language.1975, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933-1945. From the entry esoteric
  • The most diligent censorship, the most tendencious Military communiques could not hide from the people of Brussels that the Allies were holding their own, and even gaining ground.1929, Reginald Berkeley, Dawn, page 45. From the entry tendencious
  • Ordinarily, hate censorship theorists would be the first to distrust a law that could so mispunish – but this is not the case when it comes to hate speech law.2004, Stefan Braun, Democracy Off Balance, page 109. From the entry mispunish

Meaning of censorship

  1. noun The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated.
  2. noun The role of the censor (magistrate) in Ancient Rome.

Full definition of censorship

Questions about censorship in a sentence

How do you use censorship in a sentence?
Censorship is used as a noun. For example: “They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.”
What is a short sentence with censorship?
“I do not believe in censorship in that way.”
What does censorship mean?
Censorship means the use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: censorship (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use censorship in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/censorship. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.