Wondering how to use Witness in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as perceiver or percipient.
Witness meaning
- Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
- One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
- Someone called to give evidence in a court.
Synonyms of Witness
Using Witness
- The main meaning on this page is: Attestation of a fact or event; testimony. | One who sees or has personal knowledge of something. | Someone called to give evidence in a court.
- Useful related words include: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder.
- In the example corpus, witness often appears in combinations such as: the witness, to witness, witness to.
Context around Witness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Witness
- In this selection, "witness" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, prosecution, same, previous, told, testimony and testifying stand out and add context to how "witness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 911 the witness told police, a state witness testifying against, witness told, expert witness and prosecution witness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "witness" sits close to words such as achieved, singh and extensive, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with witness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Witness after witness identified the voices as belonging to Maggie and Alex. (12 words)
One witness claimed that Mooring threw around four punches, although Mr Coode said that the witness’s police statement was challenged. (21 words)
And if you need a witness to certify that you’ve completed your ballot, don’t return it without a witness signature. (22 words)
The third prosecution witness told the court presided over by Justice Ernest Owusu Dappah that he had two signatures and if he were prompted on the exact signature he signed on the Police statement, he would have done same on the witness statement. (43 words)
A single-judge bench of Justice Prathiba Singh in its April 28 order held, “It is observed that cross-examination of a witness is meant to be an opportunity to the concerned party to rebut the evidence given by the witness. (41 words)
Ted Cruz, the rightwing Republican senator for Texas, suggested on his podcast that the president had engaged in “witness tampering” by recently visiting the home of Hallie Biden, Beau’s widow, who last week testified as a witness for the prosecution. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
The deposition of the witness is taken and, if the witness is unable to appear at trial, the deposition may be used to establish the witness' testimony in lieu of the witness actually testifying.
A single-judge bench of Justice Prathiba Singh in its April 28 order held, “It is observed that cross-examination of a witness is meant to be an opportunity to the concerned party to rebut the evidence given by the witness.
Following the collision, Wakeel told a witness he should not call 911. The witness told police he could smell alcohol on Wakeel’s breath.
One witness claimed that Mooring threw around four punches, although Mr Coode said that the witness’s police statement was challenged.
Pokugara Properties, owned by controversial businessman Ken Sharpe, which caused the arrest of a State witness testifying against it for malicious damage to property has applied to have the same witness blocked from testifying.
Since then, studies have shown that roughly a third of eyewitness identifications are incorrect, and that, when the defendant and the witness are not the same race, the witness is fifty per cent more likely to be mistaken.
The witness told the investigating officer that the incident took place on February 24, 2020, later in court, the witness had stated that the incident took place on February 25.
The witness, who has not been included on the previous witness list, also wants to protect their privacy amid "enormous" press coverage of the case, according to the filing.
Trump was set to make his second appearance on the witness stand to be questioned by his own attorneys as the final witness for the defense.
When a witness attempted to intervene and stop the assault, a second suspect exited the vehicle and assaulted the witness, later retrieving a dark colored handgun from the vehicle.
Witness after witness identified the voices as belonging to Maggie and Alex.
As many of the project’s supporters gathered to witness a ceremonial key handover on Monday, the Prestwick Academy pupils, who’d made the key, were there to witness as well.
At the conclusion of the witness’ testimony, the lawyer to Bello, Abubakar Aliyu (SAN) sought an adjournment to enable him to cross-examine the second prosecution witness.
He said that once the court issues this caution to the witness, he has no difficulty with the witness testifying at the Calliaqua courtroom early Friday morning (today).
One witness said he had “never seen” the hotel’s extra ninth floor as it was closed, while another witness seemed to change his opinion about which direction the hotel collapsed.
Ted Cruz, the rightwing Republican senator for Texas, suggested on his podcast that the president had engaged in “witness tampering” by recently visiting the home of Hallie Biden, Beau’s widow, who last week testified as a witness for the prosecution.
The PW1 was also cross-examined by the defence counsel before the witness was discharged from the witness box and matter adjourned until Thursday.
The third prosecution witness told the court presided over by Justice Ernest Owusu Dappah that he had two signatures and if he were prompted on the exact signature he signed on the Police statement, he would have done same on the witness statement.
Also calling into question the witness character was Abina Morris, the attorney representing accused gang member Carlington Godfrey, who suggested that the witness only turned himself in to the police to avoid being killed by his fellow gang members.
And if you need a witness to certify that you’ve completed your ballot, don’t return it without a witness signature.
Phrases with witness
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with witness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the witness 64×
- to witness 28×
- witness to 23×
- witness the 15×
- witness told 14×
- as witness 12×
- witness is 10×
- another witness 10×
- witness in 10×
- and witness 9×