Sample sentences for TESTIMONIAL

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Definition

something that recommends (or expresses commendation) — especially a verbal statement

Her testimonial for the candidate was especially persuasive.

testimonial = statement that serves as evidence

The following testimonial is from a man who is now a highly respectable colored citizen of Boston.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
But other testimonials seemed more important.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
He asked neither pension nor retaining fee, but, if they deemed him worthy, would they write him a testimonial?
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
We must really give the Signora a testimonial.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
—The next business is to sign the testimonial.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Born-again Christians, many of whom were ex-cons and ex-junkies, preached salvation; I attended some of their testimonials.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
I'll show you the testimonials some time.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
He brought home numberless prizes and testimonials of ability.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
He has lived here from the beginning and gives a better testimonial than I can.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
The testimonials you showed me when you first tried for't are sufficient."
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
" "I doubt that marriage could be worse than having to listen to you," Call said, "but that ain't much of a testimonial for it.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
This, perhaps, is not an accident, but a testimonial to fate's sense of fitness.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Hovstad, don't you think the town ought to give Dr. Stockmann some sort of testimonial?
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
Oswald, my second (ten and a half), is the child who contributed two and nine-pence to the Great National Smithers Testimonial.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Real estate advertisements were full of testimonials to its location and appreciating values.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
Then for all the world like we were at testimonial time at the Baptist church with fortyfive people listening besides God, he commenced to pray.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
I am ready to give you a testimonial that one can get on with you!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
"Ought to have some testimonials," said Sir Ector doubtfully.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
'I expect it's the subscription to the Vicar's testimonial,' said Mother, 'or else it's the choir holiday fund.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children

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