TESTIMONY in a Sentence

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64 example sentences for TESTIMONY, such as:

1. The Yankees couldn't help but believe his testimony.
2. Her testimony works against his chance of success as a politician.
3. Her cheeks, fleck with tears, are testimony to the hours of weeping.
4. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it.
5. The government decided that their testimony would be irrelevant to the case.

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 Meanings and Examples of TESTIMONY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
testimony
 n.  solemn declaration or affirmation; something that serves as evidence
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  The Yankees couldn't help but believe his testimony.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
2  But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established upon testimony entirely independent of my own.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
3  This availed him nothing against the sworn testimony of a ministers wife, a lady of the highest respectability.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
4  When found she said she did so because she was afraid of the man's testimony.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  If I had been killed in the presence of a thousand colored people, their testimony combined would have been insufficient to have arrested one of the murderers.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Of course, it was impossible to get any white man to volunteer his testimony in my behalf, and against the white young men.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  There was not a white person on the place; and, in all southern courts, the testimony of colored blood is nothing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  She has also the testimony of missionaries, among the fugitives in Canada, in coincidence with her own experience; and her deductions, with regard to the capabilities of the race, are encouraging in the highest degree.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  The colored man, by the law of Ohio, cannot be a voter, and, till within a few years, was even denied the right of testimony in legal suits with the white.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  WE had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the Thursday; but when the Thursday came there was no occasion for our testimony.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
12  Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
13  I have always considered Bitzer a young man of the most upright principle; and to that I beg to bear my testimony.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  The two men-at-arms, with whom Albert Malvoisin had not failed to communicate upon the import of their testimony, were now called forward.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  But there was less equivocal testimony, which the credulity of the assembly, or of the greater part, greedily swallowed, however incredible.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  According to testimony at the guilty plea hearing, Mr. Haltinner, used an assumed online identity to sell approximately 637000 stolen credit card numbers.
2  His lawyers object to the testimony and doubt the qualification of the witness.
3  And make it clear, you know, we speak as one voice, what you heard for the last two days in testimony is what I also believe.
4  The witness's testimony was so clear and her reputation for honesty so well-established that the defense attorney decided it was wiser to make no attempt to controvert what she said.
5  Her cheeks, fleck with tears, are testimony to the hours of weeping.
6  The judge refused to allow the testimony to be heard by the jury because it was not germane to the case.
7  The defense called several respectable witnesses who were able to refute the false testimony of the prosecution's sole witness.
8  The judge would not admit the testimony, ruling that it was extrinsic to the matter at hand.
9  Did you question the verity of Kato Kaelin's testimony about what he heard the night Nicole Brown Simpson was slain?
10  He spoke in the clipped, clinical monotones typical of police testimony in court.
11  The confirmation came from Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair in congressional testimony last week.
12  The testimony expected by the accused from the witness will be regarded as having been actually taken.
13  According to the witness's testimony, you were present when the crime was committed.
14  Her testimony works against his chance of success as a politician.
15  The government decided that their testimony would be irrelevant to the case.