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How to use the word guilt in a Sentence?

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Every single member of the prosecution team thought that his guilt was established.

Mark Pomerantz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are all like one family. You know, somewhere you feel your guilt, guilt that you did not die like they did.

Roman Belinsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Eckhart Tolle

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

It is a very lonely experience to suffer from any disease or disorder on your own, then there’s the guilt that they’re not pleasing Allah and they’re not being good Muslims. So, we challenge perfectionism in Islam, perfectionism as Muslims during Ramadan, because a lot of people struggle.

Halima Eid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Knowing that Iranian people are actually taking this as a moral responsibility to celebrate lessens my guilt, and I’m happy to support them in celebrating our beautiful tradition.

Shabnam Salehezadeh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I built walls up years ago, because the war that happened really messed me up. I did n’t want to get hurt like that again, but with this earthquake, I feel those walls crumbling. I am remembering things I do n’t want to remember, and I ca n’t think of anything else. Others, like Zahra and Ameer Alsamman, say they are struggling with survivor’s guilt, possessed with a relentless, sinking feeling that no matter how much they help it wo n’t be enough.

Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan Mourning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She knew it was close to the end. Survivor’s guilt, some would say, but a broken heart, is the doing of her death. Now she is home where she always belonged, but my heart is missing her love, our heart is broken.

Priscilla Presley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Remember, this is a criminal case. You need all 12 jurors to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. So I ’m not saying that there’s no chance here, but this is a really difficult case for the prosecution.

Elie Honig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Remember, this is a criminal case, you need all 12 jurors to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. So I ’m not saying that there’s no chance here, but this is a really difficult case for the prosecution.

Elie Honig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

None of the matters involving January 6th, however, are relevant to the specific allegations of voter fraud concerning Mr. and Mrs. Meadows that were referred to my office for review, my office has concluded that there is not sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt against either Mr. or Mrs. Meadows, so my office will not prosecute this case. If further information relevant to the allegations of voter fraud comes to light in any subsequent investigation or prosecution by authorities in other jurisdictions, we reserve the right to reopen this matter.

Josh Stein

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

Jack Kornfield

added by Normando
1 year ago

So little of what we observe is Actuality. Do we see/hear the words pouring forth? Are they Truth? I wish and hope but my future is predestined per my parents’ belief and that is denial and death, the deepest pits of hell, the thorniest of crowns, no sympathy, simply guilt, pain, anguish and lament. Call me your Anti-Savior and I’ll take on your pain too.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I'm not sure why I'm the one that made it, i definitely have survivor's guilt because if I were to be this lucky, I feel everyone should be.

Amber Escudero-Kontostathis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A dirty player Is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There’s a huge difference. There’s no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don’t have that mean streak in me. I don’t play angry. It’s not anger.

Ndamukong Suh

added by Normando
1 year ago

I've seen this a million times, where alcoholic parents then feel guilty because they were drinking and carrying on and fighting and everything while raising the kid, and their guilt causes them to be enablers, and what that all means with him is, I don’t know everything because all the information isn’t out there, but that could create a situation where the father would be enabling him by helping him purchase the rifle.

John Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If nobody cared about him as a child growing up, then he didn’t have that empathy, why does he have no remorse or no guilt or no empathy for other human beings? I’ve seen this in a lot of serial killers, because they were abused.

John Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To me, this is an admission of guilt, they know that things didn't go right that day, and they don't want to stand up and fix it. They're going to hide behind governmental immunity and they're going to hide behind insurance and the lawyers. What's this teach the kids? They're in high school. … This is horrible leadership.

Tate Myre

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I had promised my brother [ Dylan ] that I would make sure that we got out alive, i carried so much guilt because he did n’t live, and I did. I felt like it should have been the other way around. I handled all of that in very unhealthy ways. I started drinking at age 13, smoking marijuana and hanging out with older people. I was trying to numb everything. And there was a possibility that my dad might die. I did n’t know what to do.

Shasta Groene

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Fixer-Saviors believe that they have been given a sign( often by God or a higher power) to save the criminal. Arielle Baskin-Sommers often refuses to acknowledge evidence of guilt, insists he was framed, and believes that Arielle Baskin-Sommers has unique insight into his psyche.

Casey Jordan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Yes, I want to go on vacation. Yes, I like nice clothes. Yes, I'm going to spend on these things guilt-free. I'm also going to invest, save, and make sure I can cover my rent.

Ramit Sethi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we are experiencing guilt and shame with food, we could have the most nutrient-dense meal plan in the world, and it's not going to be beneficial because of that guilt and shame... and the psychological effects of dieting and restricting.

Sam Previte

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People obviously have very strong views on January 6, we are here to assess the innocence or guilt of one person.

Christopher Cooper

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want the guilt hatred hostility shame violence perfectionism biases humanity to flee, jump off the Terminal Island bridge. How many times have I laid next to you in bed with my arms around you wanting to blow my brains out? My grave marks my preference, my erasure, my wholeness.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

Without an ego, we have fuzzy boundaries and lose ourselves in other people. We succumb to guilt, and we say yes when we should or want to say no. A healthy ego helps us maintain boundaries.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

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