Sentence examples for been attested from inspiring English sources
verb
To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
- When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?
The electric quality of his personality has been attested by his contemporaries.
Eichmann, we are now told, had been attested to be "a man obsessed with a dangerous and insatiable urge to kill," "a dangerous, perverted, sadistic personality".
HBO's movie "Recount" has fewer shrinks than "The Sopranos" and fewer laughs than "Curb Your Enthusiasm," but its over-all factual accuracy has been attested to by close observers of the events it portrays.
The benefits of the self-segregated life have been attested to by the fact that Eatonville produced Hurston herself: a black writer uniquely whole-souled and self-possessed and imbued with (in Alice Walker's phrase) "racial health".
Is it filled exclusively with people pulled from the battlefield whose role in Al Qaeda has been attested to by witnesses — witnesses who are then kept out of court on undefined technicalities?
That Kim Jong Il, North Korea's dictator, has an abiding proclivity for the bottle has now been attested (at second hand) by a senior member of the Chinese government.
Trade with Syria and Palestine is attested by scenes of ships carrying foreign peoples.
By Vespasian's reign (69 79) organized companies (societates) of prospectors are attested.
Phrygia's relations with Assyria are attested to by Assyrian documents.
But, fanciful as it sounds, sperm-squeezing is attested to by another source.
The cultural heterogeneity of the EU is attested to by 30m Muslims already within its borders.
