How do you use Corroborate in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like confirm or support, plus the exact meaning.
Corroborate meaning
- To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
- To make strong; to strengthen.
Synonyms of Corroborate
Using Corroborate
- The main meaning on this page is: To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for. | To make strong; to strengthen.
- Useful related words include: confirm, support, check, correspond.
- In the example corpus, corroborate often appears in combinations such as: to corroborate, corroborate the, corroborate it.
Context around Corroborate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Corroborate
- In this selection, "corroborate" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 30.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, study, official, evidence and previous stand out and add context to how "corroborate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include appear to corroborate previous reports and appeared to corroborate his claim. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "corroborate" sits close to words such as acuity, ademola and albans, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with corroborate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That means the processes will need sustaining, especially if the findings do not corroborate official narratives. (16 words)
Moreover, official data accessed by Kobak appears to corroborate the conclusions drawn from the analysis of inheritance records. (18 words)
Their statements can corroborate the victim’s version of events, offering an independent perspective that strengthens the case. (18 words)
I can corroborate the friendliness of the people working there, and I’ll add another selling point: The sandwich is cut in half, making it shareable, so you can order more of the “Thai-ish” must-trys from Little Pig’s menu. (42 words)
CTV News reached out to Tay's father, a former manager, the B.C. Coroners Service and several police departments across the Lower Mainland on Wednesday, but was unable to corroborate the claims of her death shared on her official account. (41 words)
That’s according to an objection filed this week in Idaho’s 2nd District Court by Kohberger’s defense in response to prosecutors’ attempt to get the precise location of his alibi and the names of witnesses who could corroborate it. (41 words)
Bux decide not to promptly disclose Benedict XVI’s response when Benedict was still alive and able to confirm and corroborate it, and instead to reveal only its existence, without disclosing its content, almost two years after his death? (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
And records examined by The Times appeared to corroborate his claim that he received his high school equivalency degree in New York in 2006.
But he also faults himself for not pushing The Post harder to explain to readers its own effort — and inability — to corroborate the dossier’s most significant claims.
CTV News reached out to Tay's father, a former manager, the B.C. Coroners Service and several police departments across the Lower Mainland on Wednesday, but was unable to corroborate the claims of her death shared on her official account.
He said that, while Sneed’s testimony was the most compelling part of the case, there was plenty of evidence to corroborate it.
It just so happens that the bulk of the most attractive bottom-up investment opportunities we have been able to identify in recent years happen to corroborate what the top-down view would suggest about areas of relative attractiveness.
Moreover, official data accessed by Kobak appears to corroborate the conclusions drawn from the analysis of inheritance records.
That means the processes will need sustaining, especially if the findings do not corroborate official narratives.
That’s according to an objection filed this week in Idaho’s 2nd District Court by Kohberger’s defense in response to prosecutors’ attempt to get the precise location of his alibi and the names of witnesses who could corroborate it.
Their statements can corroborate the victim’s version of events, offering an independent perspective that strengthens the case.
The jury learned she had admitted in a police interview that she lied about being trafficked to Ibiza and raped when the officers pointed out they could simply check flight records to corroborate her story.
The report also noted the FBI’s failure to corroborate a single substantive allegation from that purported to show raw research related to the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, amid other misdeeds.
Thirdly, findings from the study corroborate evidence that the decline in the number of pubs in U.K., regardless of geographical areas, could potentially have important repercussions on monitoring and understanding crime levels at a local level.
Walsh had zeroed in on documents that were in the possession of Reagan’s former defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, who all the evidence showed was definitely in on the deal, and President Bush’s diary that could corroborate it.
A news release says the scammers would also, occasionally, involve a third person to act as an intermediary and corroborate the scammer's story.
An image shared by X (formerly Twitter) user Majin Bu on the microblogging platform of the purported camera module of the iPhone 16 appear to corroborate previous reports that the phone would feature a vertical camera layout.
Bux decide not to promptly disclose Benedict XVI’s response when Benedict was still alive and able to confirm and corroborate it, and instead to reveal only its existence, without disclosing its content, almost two years after his death?
Extensive consultations with experts and civil society activists have also been conducted to corroborate and verify additional leads.
I can corroborate the friendliness of the people working there, and I’ll add another selling point: The sandwich is cut in half, making it shareable, so you can order more of the “Thai-ish” must-trys from Little Pig’s menu.
It was put to the father that there was no documentary evidence to corroborate the occurrence of this earmarking exercise and he did not dispute this, but stated that this was what happened.
Jurors took notes when the judge talked about the need for evidence to corroborate what Cohen was saying given he was considered an accomplice in the case.
Common combinations with corroborate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to corroborate 57×
- corroborate the 17×
- corroborate it 7×
- corroborate his 6×
- not corroborate 6×
- can corroborate 5×
- corroborate that 5×
- corroborate what 4×
- corroborate claims 4×
- could corroborate 3×