bear witness

idiom

1

: to show that something exists or is true

—+ to

His success bears witness to the value of hard work.

Rising ticket sales bear witness to the band's popularity.

2

formal : to make a statement saying that one saw or knows something

asked to bear witness to the facts

She was accused of bearing false witness at the trial.

Examples of bear witness in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There were people in Hiroshima who embodied the struggle to bear witness. —Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023

In exposing these contradictions, the Rocky Mountaineer both acknowledges—and lets travelers bear witness to—the region’s craggy past, an experience enhanced by the expert storytellers on board. —Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2023

How Brooke Shields bears witness to the life of ... —Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023

Even the Hot 100 bears witness to the exclusion of Latin music. —Leila Cobo, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023

And the clinic is only a container: a space in which to talk about and bear witness to suffering, physical or not, and to reckon with the excruciating human contradiction of our longing for meaning and our fear of it. —Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2023

Nowhere else on earth could an average person bear witness to as many top-quality acts as the DJF offers each year without asking so much as a dime for entry. —Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023

And to have all of you beautiful Black women bearing witness to the story, as the story moves forward, means so much. —Felice León, Essence, 17 Oct. 2023

There’s also Daniel’s visual impairment, which, though treated sensitively, hand-waves a facile metaphor regarding the source of knowledge and the nature of bearing witness. —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023

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