How to Use witness stand in a Sentence

witness stand

noun

• But the girl, who was 12 at the time of the trial, took the witness stand.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• The bailiff reached over the witness stand to push the barrel toward the floor.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
• One of the men, Beau Ryan, 63, read his statement from the witness stand.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• Malachi’s mother took the witness stand last week in D.C.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
• Her brothers each spent more than a day on the witness stand.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2023
• Why not fess up, take the witness stand, hire Pauline to defend her, and reap the fame that ensues?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• Weinstein's lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
• Weinstein’s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022
• Lanez, who chose not to take the witness stand during the trial, pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
  — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Both Ta and Mgdesyan accused the other side of failing to put the driver, Jauquan Smith, on the witness stand.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2022
• Stephens said the Mirror might have assumed that Harry would be a bit slow on the witness stand.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• After about four hours on the witness stand, Trump was dismissed.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• She’s expected to spend much of Friday on the witness stand.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2023
• This may be the only time Trump is actually is on the witness stand over the next year.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
• Soon enough, Ivanka was on the witness stand, once again in the thankless role of cleaning up her father’s mess.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• Scarlett Lewis was also called to the witness stand Tuesday.
  — Jim Vertuno, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
• Anyway, the star witness arrived and with a flourish landed in the witness stand.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• But whether any of them will actually hit the witness stand remains to be seen.
  — Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
• Fox was trying to block Dominion from having the Murdochs on the witness stand.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
• Carroll will be back on the witness stand today, but Trump won’t be in attendance this time.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• On the witness stand Monday, Zion testified Jefferson held the gun at her hip and did not raise it.
  — Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows took the witness stand for five hours in his bid to move the case to federal court.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Next year, the prosecution is expected to wrap up its side of the hearings, and Netanyahu will be called to take the witness stand.
  — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• The sister was never called to the witness stand during Wilson's trial.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
• On the witness stand, Fowler blamed a combination of Floyd’s bad heart, drug use and restraint by police.
  — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 19 Oct. 2022
• The last time Weisselberg took the witness stand, the stakes for the company were vastly different.
  — Clare Hymes, Ash Kalmar, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
• The star himself took the witness stand on Friday, as reported in detail by Law360.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023
• Sheeran even played guitar on the witness stand to demonstrate his method for writing songs.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 4 May 2023
• On the witness stand, Moss and Freeman described fearing for their lives as hateful messages poured in.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2023
• His appearance on the witness stand ended in a free-for-all courtroom shouting match.
  — Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024