Witness

//ˈwɪtnəs//

"Witness" in a Sentence (34 examples)

I happened to witness the bullying in the corridor.

We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

Tom was a witness to the accident.

He came only as a witness to the light.

He came as a witness to testify concerning that light.

This fact bears witness to his innocence.

The police made the witness explain in detail how the accident had happened.

I can bear witness to his innocence.

Actually, I did not witness the traffic accident.

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She can bear witness, since she was there at the time.

May we, with the warrant of womanhood and the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?

We have as much witness from heaven as we need.

On another corner, stands an old style tenement building, whose dirty grey facade bears as much witness to the volume of exhaust fumes from millions of passing cars as it does to the age of the dwelling.

Nor do the formation and articulation of such knowledge themselves bear much witness to Geist.

Fleeing is giving witness, and those that plead against it are loath to give so much witness

Ob. 16 can show that every nation will get at least this much witness

As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.

[…]thyself art witness— I am betrothed.

Upon my looking round, I was a witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.

The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.

From the evidence of witnesses and of the recorded passing times, including the time at which the circuit breakers were tripped when the wires were brought down, the train was travelling at a speed of not less than 70 m.p.h.

The bridesmaid and best man at a wedding typically serve as the witnesses.

Laban said to Jacob, […] This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness.

Yet there are extremely few, if any, cases of preserved autographs, and textual witnesses (manuscripts) rather distant in time from the creation of the texts are the norm.

This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.

round he throws his baleful eyes / That witness'd huge affliction and dismay

Depression often goes undetected until it is too late . Witness the recent White House suicide.

He witnessed the accident.

This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we be so unfortunate as ever to witness the triumph of modern infidelity

General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.

In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.

Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.

to witness a bond or a deed

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