Example sentences for: substantiate

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

  • Such distinctions are hard to substantiate and deny the fact that alternative spellings can serve the purpose of being eye-catching or distinctive, or even creating a social tie.

  • But the data do tend to substantiate what many have gleaned from listening to the Republican front-runner abuse the English language: The sharpest tool in the shed he ain't.

  • This sounds almost like an admission, and suggests that Starr's office may be indirectly using journalists to try to substantiate rumors it has heard.

  • (Example: Jackie Judd's citing of "several sources" to substantiate her witnesses-interrupted-the-president-and-Lewinsky "scoop."

  • In these stories, as in countless others, Morris serves reporters by playing what they call a "trained seal"--a glib source who can be counted on to deliver an apposite quote to substantiate the thesis of any story.


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