[
US
/ˈɛvədəns/
]
[ UK /ˈɛvɪdəns/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛvɪdəns/ ]
VERB
-
give evidence
he was telling on all his former colleague -
provide evidence for
Her behavior testified to her incompetence
The blood test showed that he was the father -
provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication
His high fever attested to his illness
This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness
NOUN
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an indication that makes something evident
his trembling was evidence of his fear -
your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling - (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved
How To Use evidence In A Sentence
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- In the absence of actual selfie evidence, let me provide a few snapshots. Times, Sunday Times
- Survivors of the terror attack will give evidence today. Times, Sunday Times
- Sadly what he calls'the paucity of evidence and excess of speculative interpretation' is unlikely to clear the air. The Times Literary Supplement
- Mrs May claimed that evidence from the blonde-haired victim, who had had a baby since her ordeal, was unreliable.
- Evidence from pages 46, 47 and 48 of the transcript of the examination of Luke Brock was read into the court record.
- Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.
- Through a series of strategic puns Sukenick associates the collection of evidence, analysis and causal sequence with political totalitarianism.
- So the evidence here is inconclusive. Times, Sunday Times
- For example, it was claimed that the study presented uniquely reliable evidence that simvastatin is not carcinogenic.
