This page shows Justify in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like warrant or support. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Justify in a sentence
Related words
Justify meaning
- To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
- To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
Example sentences (20)
And it can be hard to justify spending several hundred dollars on a watch, especially when you're on a tight budget.
At first glance, software specialist ) doesn’t appear to justify inclusion among the best gig economy stocks to buy.
However, Dick, who said the “noble” cause did not justify the means, urged the congregants to avoid temptation.
Disney's recent sequels sometimes fail to justify their existence and add no real value to the existing story.
In doing so, he implied that the agency’s allegedly rushed decision might justify pulling the drug from the market today.
Discussing the Co-op’s policies towards fertility treatment, Welby noted: “We always seem to want to justify these things.
He tried to justify his actions, claiming that the woman he shoved was standing in the way like a bodyguard.
Furthermore, the IDF has itself said Hamas uses hospitals and schools as human shields, presumably to justify bombing them.
It also expects the rise in core inflation to justify another rate hike in the next Monetary Board meeting.
And there it is again, the victim narrative that is used to justify even the most horrific terror attacks.
In this case, there is no way to justify that phrasing, as Cody vs. Dom is at best the fifth most important match on this card.
Hold onto your S21 Ultra as long as possible to justify the money you spent on it in the first place.
I asked if it was ironic to justify a course on the NSL as being for student safety, when the NSL itself was the cause of danger.
I wait with bated breath for Putin to justify the illegal occupation of the Canberra site by claiming, “we took it, so it’s ours”.
Jockey Flavien Prat, right, riding Hard to Justify wins the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf race on Friday at Santa Anita Park.
However, when the government moves to wield the big stick, people will suddenly find their voices and begin to justify illegalities.
And nearly six years after learning about the subcontractors, it had become Marquez’s job to justify the arrangement to ComEd’s new CEO.
Arms exports are a secretive business, which is why the government rarely has to justify them.
If not, it's a term used to describe a kind of logic some women use to justify their spending.
It is facing the often official distortions that justify wars and finding the most effective ways to bring out the truth and make peace.
Common combinations with justify
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to justify 138×
- justify the 48×
- justify their 17×
- justify its 11×
- and justify 10×
- justify his 8×
- would justify 7×
- can justify 6×
- justify it 6×
- justify that 5×
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