Sentence examples for testifies like from inspiring English sources

The phrase "testifies like" is not standard in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in a context where you are comparing the way someone testifies to another manner or style of testifying. Example: "Her account of the events testifies like a witness who has seen everything unfold."

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"I don't ever remember being fucking asked!" She may not be a cleric but Grace testifies like a preacher on being married to a man who gives all their possessions away.

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"What they don't know is the little things that happen [on the way to getting ID]," he testified, "like missing school or annoying our families, mothers missing work and complaining about it afterwards".

United had been monitoring him for three years and effectively lined up the transfer but Moyes, as everyone at Everton can testify, likes to have a huge amount of background information on new signings and, having initially gone along with it, decided in the end he did not want to take someone else's word about a player he had seen infrequently.

There's only a modest plaque outside the hotel to remind you of what happened here, but there are living witnesses who can still testify, like Juliette Greco.

As he watched the Gates tape, Judge Jackson said later, he was thinking, "I can't conceive of Bill Gates being allowed to testify like that on deposition".

But seriously, you really have to pee. 3. You're often tempted to come out and testify like a witness as to who said what in previous conversations.

Peter Buckley of The Rough Guide To Rock describes his "gruff voice, which combined Sam Cooke's phrasing with a brawnier delivery" and later suggested he "could testify like a hell-bent preacher, croon like a tender lover or get down and dirty with a bluesy yawp".

There is also the fact, as Joe Hart can testify, that Hodgson likes to be loyal to his players, especially when he thinks they are loyal towards him.

Mr. Verchick said later that he had told the judge that Mr. Morales might be reluctant to testify because "nobody likes being known as a murderer".

The sound of the dog, Fenjves later testified, was like "a plaintive wail sounded like a, you know, a very unhappy animal".

The sound of the dog, Fenjves later testified, was like "a plaintive wail — sounded like a, you know, a very unhappy animal".

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