[
US
/ˈtɛstəˌfaɪ/
]
[ UK /tˈɛstɪfˌaɪ/ ]
[ UK /tˈɛstɪfˌaɪ/ ]
VERB
- give testimony in a court of law
-
provide evidence for
Her behavior testified to her incompetence
The blood test showed that he was the father
How To Use testify In A Sentence
- Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to testify in front of the House Budget Committee.
- No matter how many police raids are conducted, if we cannot guarantee their protection young victims will remain too terrified to testify against their traffickers. Times, Sunday Times
- Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.
- This paradox arises either through the blocking of memory, or under oppressive regimes through torture and fear of the consequences of testifying.
- The doctor who performed the post-mortems on the bodies of the family is due to testify on Tuesday.
- He did not testify in the criminal case.
- After the trial ended, U.S. Marshals began hauling silver-haired Jimmy Fratianno around the country to testify in major mob cases. Kill the Irishman
- Most say they want to testify about their childhood experiences in residential care, mainly in industrial and reformatory schools.
- But convictions were secured against just 50, mainly because witnesses refused to testify against the rest. The Sun
- The committee counsels are scheduled to testify at the morning session, and it's standard practice for Congressional committees to hear from their counsels before taking testimony from outside witnesses.