How to Use verdict in a Sentence

verdict

noun
  • The verdict was not guilty.
  • Do you want my verdict on the meal?
  • The jury reached a guilty verdict.
  • The critic's verdict about the show was positive.
  • If the verdict had gone the other way, what would that have meant for the film?
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 July 2023
  • Their verdicts led us to select only the best of the batch.
    Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The verdicts were hailed as marking a new era of justice in the #MeToo era.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Ward on Wednesday said Bryant is pleased with the not guilty verdict.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 31 May 2023
  • What was David Swift's verdict for Karen Swift's death?
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The verdict: The first thing our tasters noticed was the darker color of the noodles.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The jury of eight women and four men took five hours to reach their verdict.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Feinstein condemned the verdict and urged the city to stay calm.
    Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Vander Ark was sick and not in the courtroom when the jury reached its verdict.
    CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • From start to finish, the reading of the verdict took less than three minutes.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 31 May 2024
  • City lawyers told the judge that a decision on whether to appeal the verdict would be made in the coming days.
    John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 29 July 2023
  • Since then, Heard had been fighting an appeal of the verdict.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Lori's mother Sheri Farmer still remembers the day the verdict was read.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • After months of holds and appeals, whether a verdict in the case would come before Election Day is up in the air.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The Trump campaign used anger over the verdict to raise a staggering $141 million in May.
    Ben Terris, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • What does today’s verdict mean for the #MeToo movement?
    Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • One of their lawyers said it was believed to be the largest verdict ever returned in Greenup, which is about 190 miles east of Louisville.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The guilty verdict comes as the military seeks to erase her influence in the country.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • James Crumbley was silent and shook his head as the jury foreperson read the verdict.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Whether Jones will pay any part of the verdict remains a major question hanging over the case.
    Laurel Calkins, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Still, the judge upheld the $40 million verdict against the officer.
    Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 15 Sep. 2022
  • If Chutkan’s March 4 start date holds, lawyers estimate that case could reach a verdict by May.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The verdict: Some other pie crusts in our test were buttery, sure, but none of them were quite as buttery as Kroger’s.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The verdict came at the tail end of a chaotic Thursday morning in San Francisco.
    Chris Young, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • If the water valve cover was an embarrassing blunder for the organizers, Max Verstappen’s verdict on the event cut arguably even deeper.
    Dan Cancian, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Lake effectively received the same, unelectable verdict from McConnell even as polling suggested her race had tightened in October.
    Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024

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