All 8 Uses
testify
in
Warriors Don't Cry
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- He urged us to prepare ourselves to testify in federal court, if need be.†
p. 56.1testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- If I testified in court about what really happened to me, it would get printed in the newspapers, and those men would come after us again.†
p. 56.1testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Think about what you'll say if you're called to testify.†
p. 64.6testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- But surely no real friend would keep us sitting on those hard seats long enough for a hundred people to testify.†
p. 66.2 *
- School Superintendent Virgil Blossom testified for a long time about the details of the school board's plan for integration, which had taken two years and two hundred meetings to devise.†
p. 66.9testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- First to testify from our group was Ernest Green.†
p. 67.3testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Next, Elizabeth Eckford testified.†
p. 67.5testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- I was relieved when the attorney said that there would be no need for the rest of us to testify.†
p. 67.7testify = provide 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)