Example sentences for: witnessed

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

  • Posner's explanation for his change in perspective is disappointingly conventional: He says he was put off by the picketing, sit-ins, and violence he witnessed at Stanford while teaching there in the late '60s.

  • When Ronald Reagan regaled world leaders with his story of having witnessed the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp, he probably saw the event as vividly as he had once seen the film about it that he helped to make.

  • The last few years have witnessed Babe (animatronic pigs, dogs, sheep), several Homeward Bound s (dog and cat), a couple of Free Willy s (whale), and countless others I have, mercifully, been able to forget.

  • The mid-1980s witnessed a gradual program of liberalization in Poland on the heels of Mikhail Gorbachev’s remarkable perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union, the promises of greater openness and economic freedoms.

  • During the past three years, I have had witnessed significant growth in alumni commitment to the law school.


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