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Example sentences for: justify

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

If your reserves are finite, after all, you need steady price increases over time to justify leaving any oil at all in the ground.
How to justify, then, the fact that a white person who has never practiced discrimination, and who never had anything to do with the subjugation of blacks, should be placed at a disadvantage in relation to less-qualified blacks?
Springer makes several tepid attempts to justify Springer :
But I needed something to justify my unreasonable anger.)
Why the hell do I have to justify Leif Ericson?