All 21 Uses
testify
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- You've testified to having applied pressure to the deceased's chest and that shortly thereafter a peculiar foam appeared at his mouth and nostrils.†
Chpt 6testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- When you were testifying.†
Chpt 6 *testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Finally he begins to swallow water, you see, and as he does the air in his lungs is forced out under pressure—and this gives rise to the foam I've testified about.†
Chpt 6testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- I'm returning to you the exhibit you identified earlier, in direct examination, as your autopsy report, which you've testified accurately reflects your findings and conclusions.†
Chpt 6
- Thank you for testifying in a snowstorm.†
Chpt 10testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- I've testified to that effect.†
Chpt 19testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- As I testified.†
Chpt 19
- As you have testified previously.†
Chpt 19
- Three fishermen—Dale Middleton, Vance Cope, and Leonard George—all testified for the court that on the evening of September 15 they'd seen Carl Heine's boat, the Susan Marie, with her net set on the fishing grounds at Ship Channel Bank; furthermore they'd seen Kabuo Miyamoto's boat, the Islander, in the same vicinity at approximately the same time.†
Chpt 19
- The fact that you've testified about this conversation without having heard any part of it.†
Chpt 21
- You've testified that on the afternoon of the ninth the defendant presented himself at your door and that he and your husband walked and talked, but that you were not present during their conversation.†
Chpt 21
- He explained to her about the blood on the fishing gaff, the wound on the left side of Carl Heine's head, the sergeant who had testified that Kabuo Miyamoto was an expert when it came to killing with a stick.†
Chpt 24
- A Mr. Ole Jurgensen, you might recall, a retired strawberry farmer from out at Island Center, has testified that your husband came to see him on that date to inquire about purchasing seven acres of his land, the strawberry land you mentioned.†
Chpt 25
- —as Susan Marie Heine testified yesterday.†
Chpt 25
- She did not accompany them or overhear their words, but she has testified as to the content of a conversation she held with her husband after your husband left that day.†
Chpt 25
- Susan Marie Heine has testified under cross-examination that Carl did not give your husband an unequivocal no answer regarding the purchase of these seven acres, Carl did not lead your husband to believe no hope existed for reclaiming his family's property.†
Chpt 25
- Not a single witness had been brought forward to testify about the defendant's state of mind in the days prior to Carl's death.†
Chpt 29testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Premeditation must be inferred from the evidence— it must be seen in the acts and words of the human beings who have testified before you, in their conduct and conversation, and in the evidence brought to your attention.†
Chpt 29testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Listening to her testify that morning he'd been keenly aware of his private knowledge of this woman: he'd understood what each expression suggested, what each pause signified.†
Chpt 30testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Do you remember when my husband testified?†
Chpt 32testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- "You know," said Ishmael, "when you were testifying, Art, you mentioned a coffee cup on the floor here, remember?†
Chpt 32testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
Definitions:
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(1)
(testify) provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)