bear witness
Example Sentences
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As a lifelong Altadenan, Swayne regularly bears witness to the unimaginable devastation across his community, and understands how painful the loss of homes, businesses, prized possessions and family heirlooms can be.
From Los Angeles Times
As an immigrant himself, Rincon said he has attended protests to bear witness.
From Los Angeles Times
“How fitting that you should bear witness to this, the end of the reign of tyranny of mortal men over the World to Come.”
From Literature
As early as the 1960s, when many survivors were too traumatized to bear witness, he spoke to students and other groups about the Holocaust—at first in general, later in personal terms.
“How are we going to do this?” she asks her husband Eliot, through whose eyes readers bear witness to the story.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
