TESTIFY in a Sentence

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That the tragical fate of Tom, also, has too many times had its parallel, there are living witnesses, all over our land, to testify.

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 Meanings and Examples of TESTIFY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
testify
 v.  give testimony in a court of law; provide evidence for
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  The Klan had acted to save the as yet unnamed victim from having to testify in open court.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  There are a dozen Yankee soldiers who can testify to that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  We gave her a list of the men who were out tonight and she and her girls will testify that they were all in her house tonight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  You give us what you know and testify from actual knowledge.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In I
5  When that poor Afro-American was murdered, the whites excused their refusal of a trial on the ground that they wished to spare the white girl the mortification of having to testify in court.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  That were impossible," returned the young man; "he called you by a thousand endearing epithets, that I may not presume to use, but to the justice of which, I can warmly testify.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
7  His answer was, he could do nothing in the case, unless some white man would come forward and testify.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  The teachers of Sunday-schools among the manufacturing population of England, and among plantation-hands in our country, could perhaps testify to the same result, there and here.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  That the tragical fate of Tom, also, has too many times had its parallel, there are living witnesses, all over our land, to testify.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
11  There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV
12  "I'll testify that you tried to do it," said Laurie with a grateful look.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
13  'Nobody better than you, I am persuaded,' answered Mrs. Bumble: who did not want for spirit, as her yoke-fellow could abundantly testify.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  The second was, that he did not wish to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be brought in to testify against Thenardier.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
15  Take these too," so says she, "my child, to be memorials to thee of my hands, and testify long hence the love of Andromache wife of Hector.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
Example Sentence:
1  I can testify to the foregoing since I was actually present when it happened.
2  Mr Molto has agreed to testify at the trial.
3  The fingerprint expert was asked to testify at the trial.
4  The president's former aides were called to testify at his trial.
5  The police will have to find Milosevic associates linked to the killings, which are willing to testify in court that they received verbal orders from the top.
6  His lawyer says the case is uncertain if he'll testify at congressional hearing.
7  Williams testified that he tried to apply the brakes but couldn't stop the vehicle in time.
8  Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.
9  Eva testified to having seen Herndon with his gun on the stairs.