How to Use corroborate in a Sentence

corroborate

verb
  • They’ve been seen by eyewitnesses, and it's been corroborated by and recorded by gun camera footage.
    Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024
  • If there is a link to a new expiration date, click on it, find the lot number on your test kit and corroborate it on the file to know the new expiration date for your tests.
    Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2024
  • But always be sure to corroborate your adviser's credentials.
    Jazmin Goodwin, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Wildlife officers are still investigating the scene to corroborate a wildlife attack.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 1 May 2021
  • In many modern criminal cases, the defendant’s phone is often the first thing that the police will turn to in order to find evidence to corroborate their case.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 12 May 2021
  • While filmmakers have the right to tell stories their way, multiple sources should corroborate facts to ensure accurate portrayals.
    Legal Entertainment, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • In order to corroborate the death, DNA evidence is required.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Wildlife officers worked throughout the night and into the morning to process the scene, looking for evidence to corroborate that the incident was a wildlife attack.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 May 2021
  • Longer video footage sent by the law firm and obtained by The Post corroborates the order of events.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • They are seen as a way to corroborate Comey's account in Mueller's probe.
    Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 17 Mar. 2018
  • At first glance, this video seems to corroborate the claim.
    Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • What the video shows Aden insisted that deputies did not go to the wrong apartment, and that the video would corroborate that.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • And Netflix and phone records seemed to help corroborate his story … at least for a while.
    Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Tire markings on the road seemed to corroborate that account, the complaint said.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The video corroborates reports this groin injury is not nearly as bad as the one last year.
    Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • That probably should be done in writing to that the non-lawyer can corroborate that this was done.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The new videos appear to corroborate what was described in the Guardian report.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • The tools used on the carcass seem to corroborate this theory.
    John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • Witnesses and videos corroborate that the teenage girl stayed still while her mom screamed.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Put in pairs to corroborate each other’s results, the dogs got close-to-perfect scores.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
  • On Tuesday night, the Free Press could not corroborate with police that a report was made a year ago.
    Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Reporters from the Times have not been able to corroborate the existence of such an order.
    Peter Baker and Charlie Savage, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • On top of that, the other two pilots who were flying with Cassie at the time don’t corroborate her story.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Based on the prediction, the fiery streaks in the sky over Montana appear to corroborate that timing.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 July 2022
  • The Journal couldn’t corroborate the amount of the ransom payment.
    Robert McMillan, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • That’s corroborated by my mother, who didn’t know what to do with that.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • And yet, after over nine hours, the story has still not been corroborated and the divide over who is telling the truth remains.
    Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The woman’s friend corroborated that phone call to NBC News.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The reporting corroborates what people have told us off the record.
    Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 18 May 2018
  • Again, the video from the daycare appears to corroborate that part of Fravel's story.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024

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