sit in judgment
Example Sentences
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If you decide not to sit in judgment of this couple, then your relationship with these family members shouldn’t be adversely affected.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2022
Doing both well is harder still, especially if you’re a teenager and a committee of grown-ups will sit in judgment on whatever you produce.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
Citizens have a right to know who finances the nomination and election of the people who will sit in judgment of them.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2022
Zink lovingly lampoons the way that teenagers bumble toward identity and character: “Henry regarded himself as an ethical person with a right to sit in judgment because he knew first aid,” she writes.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Once upon a long-lost time, people had believed it, and had believed, too, that the seraphim would return one day and sit in judgment over them.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
