CRITICIZE in a Sentence

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364 example sentences for CRITICIZE, such as:
1. Darling, you mustn't criticize Fanny.
2. The inquiry was critical of her work.
3. It may seem harsh to criticize him after his death.
4. No one has a right to criticize a husband to a wife.
5. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to criticize.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CRITICIZE
criticize
 v.  act as a critic
 v.  find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws
Classic Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1  She wasn't a girl who could dance and flirt and she wasn't a wife who could sit with other wives and criticize the dancing and flirting girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Pitty did not wish to criticize but after all-- As for herself, said Pitty, she would rather starve than have such commerce with Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  Darling, you mustn't criticize Fanny.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Darling, what you do, you always do for a good reason and I love you and trust you and it is not for me to criticize.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  And I will not permit anyone to criticize you in my hearing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  No one has a right to criticize a husband to a wife.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
7  I've gotten mighty tired of hearing people criticize you, darling," Melanie said, "and this is the last straw and I'm going to do something about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
8  She knew, moreover, that if the ladies at Bellomont permitted themselves to criticize her friends openly, it was a proof that they were not afraid of subjecting her to the same treatment behind her back.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
9  I don't see why you shouldn't criticize the Jolly Seventeen if you want to.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  With nine-tenths of her emotion concentrated upon Hugh, she did not criticize shops, streets, acquaintances.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  Think how much better you can criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  Set the mind and the reason to cock it over the rest, and all they can do is to criticize, and make a deadness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  There are instances of persons who, without clear ideas of the things they criticize have yet had clear ideas of the relations of those things.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
14  Anna Pavlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was pleased with.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
15  Pfuel, always inclined to be irritably sarcastic, was particularly disturbed that day, evidently by the fact that they had dared to inspect and criticize his camp in his absence.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to criticize.
2  He was the first to break the consensus and criticize the proposal.
3  It may seem harsh to criticize him after his death.
4  She started to criticize me, then she suddenly backed off.
5  Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to pacify them.
6  It's so easy to criticize someone else's culture when there is no chance of vindication from the other party.
7  Before you criticize her constant reading as mere escapism, note how greatly her vocabulary has improved since she began spending her days buried in books.
8  Other insurers will allow you to bolt on critical illness cover to standard life cover.
9  His book provides a critical analysis of the television industry in Britain.
10  This view is contrary to the aims of critical social research for a number of reasons.
11  He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.
12  The inquiry was critical of her work.
13  Despite his great commercial success he still yearns for critical approval.
14  He remains in a critical condition in a California hospital.
15  The boy's condition has been downgraded from critical to serious.