Sample sentences for TESTIMONY

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Definition

something that serves as evidence — especially a statement at a trial or hearing

testimony = the statement of a witness at a trial

Before your testimony, they will have you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

testimony = the statement of a witness at a trial

She said it in her testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works committee on greenhouse gas emissions.

testimony = a statement that serves as evidence at a trial or hearing

Mr. Ewell, you heard the sheriff's testimony, didn't you?
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

testimony = statement (made under oath in a court trial)

For the remainder of your testimony, I wish you would stick to what you saw, Mr. Quillan.
Stephen King -- Carrie

testimony = statement (evidence)

Well, I think that testimony that could put a human being into the electric chair should be that accurate.
Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men

testimony = a statement that serves as evidence

The first people to give testimony were criminals themselves, members of the organizations and syndicates who, for one reason or another, decided to turn against their own kind.
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese

testimony = oral evidence in a trial

The point is: can you listen to the testimony given here and decide whether she's guilty or innocent based on the evidence, not on past experience or feelings?
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

testimony = oral evidence (in a trial)

The remainder of the trial consisted of the testimony of eleven witnesses—four for Mason and seven for Clyde.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

testimony = statements that serve as evidence

On top was a copy of my testimony from the preliminary hearing.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky

testimony = statement at a trial or hearing

Their testimony is basic to the defense of my client.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind

testimony = statements that serves as evidence

Won't his testimony validate that they are, in fact, Africans?
Alexs Pate -- Amistad

testimony = statements that serve as evidence

Let me now advert ... to what was peculiar in that testimony.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue

testimony = a statement at a trial or hearing

Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

testimonies = something that serves as evidence

At 2:15, Tom returned to tell them the jurors had asked to see the coroner's testimony.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

testimony = written transcript of oral evidence (in a trial)

Sometimes seeing testimony in black and white makes it more definitive to the jurors.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

testimony = oral evidence (in a trial)

The jurors have asked to see the court record of the bus drivers' testimonies.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

testimonies = oral evidence (in a trial)

Kya's mind faded in and out of reality, catching only snippets of the testimony.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

testimony = oral evidence (in a trial)

The prosecution does not refute this testimony.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

testimony = oral evidence (in a trial)

Kya nodded slightly—her first reaction to testimony since the trial began.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

testimony = oral evidence (in a trial)

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