JUDGMENT in a Sentence

Learn JUDGMENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

150 example sentences for JUDGMENT, such as:

1. The judgment set a new precedent.
2. As if she did not trust him or his judgment.
3. The matter was settled beyond dispute by the court judgment.
4. He'd been so bad himself that he wouldn't sit in judgment on her.
5. She could not sit in judgment on Rhett when she was as guilty as he.

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 Meanings and Examples of JUDGMENT
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judgment
 n.  the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
 n.  the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  She could not sit in judgment on Rhett when she was as guilty as he.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  As if she did not trust him or his judgment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  She had never expected Will, of all people, to sit in judgment on her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  His inexperience, his errors, his utter lack of business judgment and his scruples about close dealing were the same as Hugh's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  It was an embarrassing situation, having the old desperado sitting in judgment upon her, and it was still more embarrassing to know that her family and friends agreed with the old man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  She would have to cower at the seat of judgment and answer for that lie she told him coming back from the Yankee camp in his buggy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  He'd been so bad himself that he wouldn't sit in judgment on her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  The very thought of how Archie had sat in judgment upon her about the convicts always enraged her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  She could just see Aunt Pauline and Aunt Eulalie sitting in judgment on her in the crumbling house on the Battery with little between them and starvation except what she, Scarlett, sent them every month.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
10  Reason, judgment, renunciation, all the sane daylight forces, were beaten back in the sharp struggle for self-preservation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
11  She was sure that Gerty knew Selden's feeling for her, and it had never dawned upon her blindness that Gerty's own judgment of him was coloured by emotions far more ardent than her own.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
12  He had read with astounding breadth, and astounding lack of judgment.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Tell 'em it's the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.'
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.
14  It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the pit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
15  Grandfather had such respect for her judgment that I knew he would not go against her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit ; and at forty, the judgment.
2  The matter was settled beyond dispute by the court judgment.
3  The judgment encouraged citizen groups supporting term-limit initiatives in other states.
4  The House of Commons can merely say yea or nay to the executive judgment.
5  Perhaps anger had clouded his vision, perhaps his judgment had been faulty.
6  I think my husband is the most handsome man in the world, but I realize my judgment is rather subjective.
7  It is necessary in his judgment to relate the facts only in the barest outline.
8  The management's decision to ignore the safety warnings demonstrated a remarkable lapse of judgment.
9  The judgment set a new precedent.
10  However, the sooner you apologize for your mistake, the more likely it will be viewed as an error in judgment and not a character flaw.
11  Even her conviction for murder did not shake Peter's judgment that Harriet was innocent of the crime.
12  I would again defer to responsible judgment when we're dealing with these kind of things.
13  The mayor is apologizing, saying he's deeply sorry for a lapse of judgment.
14  But it is childish to waste our time in censorious judgment on the individual who does no worse than represent a ruling type.
15  Known in the company for his cool judgment, Bill could impartially examine the causes of a problem, giving a dispassionate analysis of what had gone wrong, and go on to suggest how to correct the mess.