How to Use do justice to in a Sentence

do justice to

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  • No words will do justice to the special nature of this place.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
  • This pains me greatly, and does not do justice to the passion and hard work of our team.
    Nathaniel Mott, PCMAG, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The above slash lines don’t even do justice to his maturation at the plate.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • That doesn’t even do justice to the true role of solar power in our futures.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • And the final score doesn’t really do justice to the mess.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • This is touching but fails to do justice to the uniquely complex man and artist that is its subject.
    Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
  • So the script came with a responsibility on my part to do justice to that time.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2022
  • How does one do justice to the breadth and impact of Leonard Bernstein’s life and career?
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 June 2021
  • Those last three words, of course, could never really do justice to Kottmeier’s years-long journey.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • But this series does, for the most part, do justice to the metaphor at the center of Butler’s masterpiece.
    Time, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Globes have grappled with how to do justice to these two awards on a show that is already packed with prizes for both film and television.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The goal was his first of the season, reward for a player whose season point total (two) doesn’t do justice to his impact on the ice.
    Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2022
  • How to do justice to the longing for excess except excessively?
    Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • At the same time, that margin arguably fails to do justice to how impressive the Blue Devils looked.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Who else is going to truly encapsulate and do justice to that experience in song?
    Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Pictures can hardly do justice to the level of execution on the dial, bezel, case, and buckle.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The elegant bottle and ornate, intricate box in which it’s housed do justice to the liquid inside.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The 23-point margin of defeat didn’t do justice to the Wisconsin’s effort for the night.
    Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Labeling this do-it-all midfielder as just a scorer, however, wouldn’t do justice to the other aspects of her game.
    Rich Scherr, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2023
  • Alas, it was widely regarded as far too bland and twee to do justice to the brooding Man in Black, and the show flopped and closed within six weeks.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • That doesn’t even begin to do justice to Guillermo and Kim Morgan’s adaptation.
    Martin Scorsese, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • It is seen as failing to do justice to the communitarian values common across Africa.
    Benjamin Rosman, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The decision to split Wicked into two films was made to do justice to the depth and complexity of the original story.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • According to Gerard, television broadcasts also don’t do justice to the locale or the course’s sense of place.
    Shaun Tolson, Robb Report, 2 July 2022
  • The film team settled on the expansive Freshwater West Beach to do justice to the moment.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The negative response to the movie motivated Reynolds to do justice to Deadpool in his own spinoff series.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 July 2024
  • But watching them on iPhone did not do justice to the majestic and panoramic imagery being offered on TV screens.
    David Zurawik, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The playwright also spoke to dozens of dancers and visited many strip clubs to do justice to a community that has often been dehumanized in media.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 June 2022
  • Bringing out the Dickensian maxim about the worst of times abutting the best hardly begins to do justice to such an abrupt reversal of fortune.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Jan. 2025
  • And with their final images, Hynes and O’Connor do justice to the play’s thrust towards desolation.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023

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