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

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

That's unlikely, wrote Roberts, because a court generally "does not sit in judgment of one of its own members' recusal decision in the course of deciding a case."

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2022

“They are women who had the effrontery to sit in judgment on men,” said Susan Glazebrook, president of the judges’ association and a justice of the Supreme Court in New Zealand.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

To be honest, I can’t understand how the Dutch, a nation of good, honest, upright people, can sit in judgment on us the way they do.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank