Example sentences for: cross-examination

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

  • The editorial added that the cross-examination of Lewinsky or Betty Currie was "likely to open up a can of worms."

  • She simply assumes the very thing the trial is supposed to prove and what cross-examination might disprove (if this is, in fact, the point of the trial): that the witness is a victim.

  • While objecting to cross-examination of alleged rape victims because "it is easy to distort events so that a rape can appear to be consensual sex," she ignores the reverse implication--that it is easy to make consensual sex look like rape.

  • In a criminal trial, one slick cross-examination of a state's witness can plant enough doubt to hang the jury.

  • Predicting that the delegates would be subjected to continuous U.S. cross-examination about Pakistan's nuclear intentions, an unidentified "Pakistani diplomat in Washington" told the newspaper's correspondent there that they should have chosen a better time to come to the United States "on a junket."


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