All 12 Uses
testimony
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
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- At the start of the testimony, the judge had given us nearly an hour's worth of verbal instructions.†
*testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
- I had studied the evidence; I had heard the testimony; I had convicted him.†
- If Maggie was right—if my testimony was the only thing that would help Shay—then how could I tell her something now that would ruin the case?†
- During my testimony, I was supposed to explain in layman's terms how donating a heart to Claire Nealon was one of Shay's spiritual beliefs.†
- Do you know what he was doing yesterday when I briefed him on his testimony?†
- We know you'll listen carefully to the testimony, Your Honor, but the reality is that the Department of Corrections is not required to submit to the whim of every misguided prisoner that comes through its doors— especially one who has committed the monstrous torture and murders of two New Hampshire citizens, a child and a police officer.†
- And we all watched as the chains he was wearing—the ones that had secured him at the wrists and the ankles and the waist, the ones that had jangled throughout his testimony—fell to the floor with a clatter, as if they'd been no more substantial than smoke.†
- But Shay wound up teaching me about redemption, and you said my testimony was critical, and I thought maybe it was better you didn't know.†
- Even if Father Michael's testimony was stricken from the record, though, you couldn't make the judge forget hearing it; the damage had been done.†
- By your own testimony, chemicals would only cost four hundred and twenty-six dollars.†
- I'd been present at that trial; I'd heard all the testimony.†
- Father, you sat through days of testimony.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(testimony) something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)