Example sentences for: attested

How can you use “attested” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.

  • M.F. , a euphemistic form of motherfucker , had been attested to 1964; we found a 1959 example buried in Robert Gold's excellent Jazz Lexicon.

  • Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States.

  • The second major family of GOLD domains (category 2) is so far only attested in the crown group.

  • Acrostics (p. 75) are already attested in the Near East (3rd millennium BCE), Egypt (14th c. BCE) and 6th-c. BCE Greece.


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