How to Use testimony in a Sentence

testimony

noun
  • It is testimony to her courage and persistence that she worked for so long in the face of such adversity.
  • The popularity of diet fads is a testimony to the fact that people want a quick fix for their health and weight problems.
  • There were contradictions in her testimony.
  • The jury heard 10 days of testimony.
  • The testimony, which came out in November 2019, marked the start of France’s #MeToo movement.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 16 May 2023
  • It was tied with expert testimony showing that snow might not fall in that area in the coming years.
    TIME, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Wright will take the stand on Tuesday; his testimony is expected to last up to six days.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
  • One of the bullets hit Rincon, whose eyes welled up during testimony, just above his left knee.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The jury heard from a total of 20 witnesses over more than two weeks of testimony in the trial’s latest phase.
    Nicki Brown, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Lehman asked the jury to remember the testimony of a federal agent, who said that guns can be stored in a variety of ways.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Kuk declined to take the money, saying Chan should keep track of it, according to Wang’s testimony.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • There have been numerous testimonies, the one of Adèle Haenel, which triggered many things, and more recently, the one by Judith Godrèche.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The three Jane Does said — both at the sentencing and in testimony — that the church dissuaded them from reporting Masterson to the police.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Bragg could use the testimony to prove that Trump could and would do anything to avoid prosecution for his behavior.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • At that point in his testimony, Hill began to cry and struggled to maintain composure.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In testimony, Allen, who was wearing a casual black hoodie, said that Mizell had been his best friend since childhood.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
  • A great deal of the media coverage of Cummings’s testimony focussed on his texting style.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In their testimonies, the person shot in the leg that night named Jordan as the shooter, and Mizell's business manager identified Washington as the one who pointed a gun at her.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • According to trial testimony in a lawsuit Fresquez later filed, nearly a dozen calls had come in about Paz.
    Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Defense lawyers have accused the DA's office of misconduct in their push for a dismissal of the case, the limiting of key testimony, and a lengthier delay of the trial.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The meeting will be held virtually, and Gilvezan plans to place a photo of Bumblebee on his screen and offer testimony in the voice that is familiar to fans.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • Another testimony was from the Inner Princess Program, no doubt stemming from her own wishes as a child.
    Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Slade, Echols and Sanon were from Columbus and affiliated with the Crips gang, testimony revealed.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 12 July 2023
  • The two-day hearing continues today with more testimonies.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 20 July 2023
  • The substitute version of the measure will get a second round of public testimony in August before the Assembly votes on it.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • On top of all that, defendants have the right to confront their accusers, but machine testimony, as it’s called, may be based on as little as 20 seconds of audiotape.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Their testimonies were prepared as evidence that was not allowed into the trial.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Many fans gathered outside of the courthouse where Spears gave her testimony in June 2021 and listened to the star's prepared speech about why her conservatorship should end.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 11 July 2023
  • In many ways, her nearly five hours of testimony encapsulated the entire trial so far, in substance if not in style.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The lawyer argued the testimonies did not show Majors had the legal, requisite intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm Jabbari.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023

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