Sample Sentences for
circumstantial evidence
(editor-reviewed)

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    It was all circumstantial evidence, but it was all we had to go on.  (source)
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    As for the charge of arson, the case has been founded on purely circumstantial evidence.  (source)
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    Pete Earley's book Circumstantial Evidence was published a few months after Walter was freed, and it provided a detailed account of the case.  (source)
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    It hardly mattered that Dan hadn't blacked out or anything at all this time; the circumstantial evidence would be more than enough.  (source)
    circumstantial evidence = evidence that can suggest something, but does not prove it
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    And beyond that, the judge will instruct you that in a case based on circumstantial evidence such as this one, you can find Miss Christian guilty only if there is no other reasonable theory of guilt.  (source)
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    It sounds to me as though your suspicions are for the most part based on assumptions and circumstantial evidence.  (source)
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    There is only circumstantial evidence that Personnel $2222 contacted Adversaries regarding location of Witness $599-6.†  (source)
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    A grieving family hammered by cops, circumstantial evidence, and three women with their throats cut open.†  (source)
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    On the other hand, they can believe the story we planted through Henderson, which is also unattractive but is supported by a good deal of circumstantial evidence, especially our efforts to entice their crewmen to defect.†  (source)
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    I had no fear, therefore, that any circumstantial evidence could be brought forward strong enough to convict her.†  (source)
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    Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick.†  (source)
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    Okay, so the circumstantial evidence is pretty strong.†  (source)
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    We believe that British Intelligence has deliberately spun around Comrade Mundt a mesh of circumstantial evidence— the payment of money to foreign banks, its withdrawal to coincide with Mundt's presence in this or that country, the casual hearsay evidence from Peter Guillam, the secret meeting between Control and Riemeck at which matters were discussed that Leamas could not hear: these afl provided a spurious chain of evidence and Comrade Fiedler, on whose ambitions the British so accurately counted, accepted it; and thus he became party to a monstrous plot to destroy—to murder in fact, for Mundt now stands to lose his life—one of the most vigilant defenders of our Republic.†  (source)
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