How to Use bear witness in a Sentence
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Even those who didn’t join the bike ride came to bear witness.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
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And there are a lot of people struggling who can bear witness to that.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
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What does any of this do for the still-alive children who bore witness to a tragedy that day?
—Melissa Cook, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
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Williams has bore witness to turmoil and turnover and a whole lot of losing.
—Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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May the righteous rise up, bold as lions, and bear witness to the truth.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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The grief of those bearing witness to the fires is more than sympathy.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
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How can people bear witness today to events that happened in the past?
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2022
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Because when somebody bears witness to you, that is just a huge piece of their healing.
—Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
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Meanwhile, as part of the piece, two live snakes bore witness to it all; they were fed daily with one mouse.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Sep. 2024
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Many of the past masters of jazz and the avant-garde have rarely been seen, so these videos bear witness to their genius.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 26 Oct. 2021
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Young yachting families can use their time at sea to bear witness to how the ocean is changing.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
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Young yachting families can use their time at sea to bear witness to how the ocean is changing.
—Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
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This is a love story where the ghosts of Hiroshima bear witness.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 July 2024
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There’s no substitute for getting people to go see this and come back and bear witness to it.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024
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Her job, usually alone, was to bear witness — to try to hold the court accountable.
—Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
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Inside, the faucets and washbasins that adorn each room still bear witness to its past existence.
—April Clare Welsh, SPIN, 3 July 2024
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These expressions bear witness to the indomitable will to survive, to thrive, to be free.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
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All his work encourages viewers to bear witness to both the joy and the tragedy from the eyes of someone else.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
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And Graves is just one of the many people who have borne witness to them who offers his accounts.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
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And three, yeah, bearing witness and recording what is happening in the street.
—NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026
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Tomatoes grow, then wither Guelleh can bear witness to the hope - and the letdown.
—Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
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Still, devotees came to bear witness to the latest retail revival.
—Kevin Armstrong, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
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Soon there will be no living voices to bear witness to the horrors of the Holocaust.
—Elliott Broidy, Sun Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2026
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Instead, like the book before it, the series sees itself as an act of bearing witness.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 2 Apr. 2026
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Throughout history, the world has bore witness to the depths a child will go to protect their mother.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 July 2024
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Understand that anyone who can’t see your worth simply has their head buried too deeply in the sand to bear witness to your shine.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2021
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The question of who gets to write the first record of history has always been about power and who gets to bear witness.
—Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
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All along this riverbank, scraps of clothing bear witness to the many migrants who have been snared by razor wire in recent weeks.
—USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
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The heart scarab silenced the heart on Judgement Day, so as not to bear witness against the deceased.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
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To stand in the crowd at a Blackpink concert is to bear witness to a pantheon of pop superheroes.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
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