Example sentences for: attested

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

  • It is attested in Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin religious and magical texts preserved on clay tablets, papyrus, parchment, gems, and strips of metal thousands of years old.

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

  • McGwire's homer was a high fly, as Niehaus attested, and as was confirmed by his broadcast partner Rick Rizzs, who marveled at the ball's hang time.

  • 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.

  • Based on the sparse evidence available, linguists theorized about the earlier languages that had given rise to those attested.


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