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.
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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 -
The final verdict for Jimmy — and the entire show — awaits.
— Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2022 -
Lori's mother Sheri Farmer still remembers the day the verdict was read.
— Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023 -
When the verdict was announced, Flores did not look at the accused.
— Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022 -
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 -
The judge also pushed back on Trump’s claim that the verdict should be set aside because the jury was tainted.
— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025 -
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 -
That evidence was not controversial at the time, but a Supreme Court ruling one month after the verdict gave Trump's legal team a basis for arguing that the trial had been corrupted.
— Kyler Alvord, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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