How to Use justification in a Sentence

justification

noun

• He tried to present a justification for his behavior.
• There is no possible justification for what she did.
• His behavior is without justification.
• Still, does that give the refs justification to bark back?
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 9 May 2026
• There is no justification to just shut it down.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
• The Sox will sell all that and more as justification for this move.
  — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 16 June 2025
• But that is not a justification for some of the things he’s written.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 19 Dec. 2017
• Some are going to hear it as a justification not to.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
• The justification for this war isn’t about stemming the flow of drugs.
  — ABC News, 4 Jan. 2026
• That’s more than enough moral justification to keep the old flags flying.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
• There is no justification for this surge.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
• But the justification for the tariffs has been two-fold.
  — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
• There is no justification for that kind of cruelty, and no greater good that can come of it.
  — Nadia Murad, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2018
• Musk provided no justification or proof to back up his claim at the time.
  — Kerry Flynn, CNN, 2 Dec. 2019
• There is no justification for leaving a child on a table to die.
  — Russell D. Moore, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
• That sort of justification is tough to swallow, whether in real life or on film.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• Sort through the justification for each of these two stances to determine the best for you.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 30 Aug. 2018
• And is that a justification for putting the whole economy for a ringer?
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
• But as decades of messy wars drag on, this justification grows less and less plausible.
  — The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• The Chloe’s guest rooms are justification enough for locals to stay for a night or two.
  — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2020
• The justification, clearly, these agents are evil, so why not.
  — Fox News, 21 June 2018
• Forgive me, but this feels like a lot of justification after-the-fact.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
• Much of his speech that night was a further attempt to sell to the nation the justification for his war.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
• One of the common threads of any genocide is its justification.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 20 June 2018
• And there is no real justification for any of this to need the blockchain as an essential part of the process.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
• There is no justification for the horrific acts that took place.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
• There is no justification for that.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 2 June 2026
• The Kremlin was quick to cite the attack as a justification for its war.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• Take the issue of emissions – the main justification for the pause.
  — Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
• There is no justification for what’s going on.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025