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Example sentences for "verify"

Lexicographically close words:
verifications; verifie; verified; verifier; verifies; verifying; verily; verin; veris; verisimilitude
  1. Lecacheur made them sit down, and told them the affair, and then they went and saw the scene of the theft, in order to verify the fact that the hutch had been broken open, and to collect all the proofs they could.

  2. He has a watch which he often consults, and he is interested in the punctuality or otherwise of the train, and will perhaps verify this by frequent reference to his time-table.

  3. It would be necessary only to verify my conclusions, to identify the lady according to the description and photograph given me.

  4. I had my Bradshaw in my bag, and proceeded at once to verify the itinerary by the time-table, while I drank my early coffee in the restaurant upon the station platform.

  5. It implores every man to verify every word for himself, and it implores him to say if he does not believe it, that he does not.

  6. But it would be a great mistake to conclude from this, that it is the less a history of the art itself; for no art or science has life in itself, apart from the minds which foresee, discover, and verify it.

  7. Footnote: We are sorry we cannot verify this quotation, for which we are indebted to Mr. Oldbuck the Antiquary, in the novel of that ilk.

  8. You have a correspondence by means of which you may, if you think it worth the trouble, go back to the source and verify the fact.

  9. Nobody undertook to verify the title of a Siamese trader or a Burma agent.

  10. It took Hargrave the whole of the hour to verify the money.

  11. He shouted over everything, thrust his glass into Mr. Meadows' hand and bade him verify what he had seen.

  12. Nute had the right to copy the map, and the text and a year to verify it.

  13. I have endeavored to verify such passages as my own library afforded me the means of doing.

  14. To verify this impression I have just looked out the dates of his birth and death, and find that he was eighteen years younger than the speaker who is now addressing you.

  15. Christine took great interest in the easy navigation of the steamer; she watched the officers take observations, and verify the ship's run.

  16. He was glad to take this trip to Europe, as it might afford him opportunity to verify or change some of his conclusions.

  17. You may easily verify that by sending for my uncle, Monsignore Murray, of Sihasset, with whom I made my home until he went to college in Rome to study for the priesthood.

  18. At any rate we can verify some of the details.

  19. Oh, that this worthy doctor, who has struck out this happy thought of hanging, under the influence of ether, would verify the suggestion!

  20. Both were Protestants, although it was difficult to verify the fact, on account of their extreme care in attending church and in accompanying the sacrament when it was carried to the sick.

  21. To verify this, orders were given to open, on a certain day, all letters addressed to Portuguese throughout Spain.

  22. It is just as easy to verify this as it is difficult to determine the measure and the manner of the influence for each group.

  23. I take no note of the Testament of the twelve Patriarchs, out of which one can, of course, beautifully verify the strict Modalistic, and even the Adoptian Christology.

  24. He felt he must verify this statement, and summoned the confessor.

  25. Mannouri, the surgeon, was therefore ordered to verify this assertion, and the day appointed for the verification was the 26th.

  26. This is strikingly seen in the Kentish laws; and even in the West Saxon laws a very little study will enable the reader to verify this characteristic.

  27. In this book we discover the true and legitimate source of the power of the clergy, and we verify the words of Joseph Butler, who said that if conscience had power as it has authority, it would govern the world.

  28. I was enabled to verify and to understand the initial letters of his own name, and of her who was not to become his bride--although she still clung to his memory in loving loneliness in that foreign land!

  29. The previous book has unfortunately been lost, so that it is impossible to verify the dates of Anthony's baptism and marriage.

  30. I had an opportunity to verify what we had observed at sea, that the sea- coast is composed of a number of large and small islands, and that the numerous inlets are formed by the junction of several channels; at least so it is here.

  31. We verify this by the very general tendency to say if it is, and if he speaks, rather than if it be, and if he speak.

  32. We verify this by the tendency to say it is broke, and he is smote, for it is broken and he is smitten.

  33. Hence the double forms, wiste, and wisse, verify the statement concerning the Mœso-Gothic vissa.

  34. The master complained of the chronometers, and the captain thought it his duty to verify or correct them; and so shaped his course for the island of Tristan d'Acunha, then lying a little way out of his course.

  35. It is a simple matter for you to verify my statement.

  36. It is an easy matter to verify my statements.

  37. The measurements of Agassiz and Forbes completely verify the anticipations of Rendu; but no writer with whom I am acquainted has added anything essential to the Bishop's statements as to the identity of glacier and liquid motion.

  38. G] I may remark that such experiments substantially verify M.

  39. For if this had been a bona fide transaction, it was the duty of the party interested to take the master before the consul to witness the taking of the deposition, so that he might verify "the paper," if captured.

  40. This may or may not be true, but the master is unable to verify the document, he not having been present when it was prepared, and not knowing any thing about it.

  41. The latter authority is express to the point, that papers found on board a ship are not to be credited, if contradicted by the oath of any of the crew, and I take it that an inability to verify amounts to the same thing.

  42. It seemed as though these preliminary rushes toward us were efforts to verify the location of danger in order to determine the right direction for escape.

  43. These undesigned coincidences tend to verify both the narratives.

  44. We can compare the evangelical writers with contemporary authors, and verify a number of circumstances in the history, and government, and peculiar economy of the Jewish people.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affirm; assay; attest; audit; authenticate; back; balance; bolster; buttress; certify; check; collate; confirm; corroborate; demonstrate; determine; document; essay; establish; experiment; fortify; inventory; justify; overhaul; practice; probate; prove; ratify; reinforce; research; sample; seal; show; strengthen; substantiate; support; sustain; taste; test; try; uphold; validate; verify; vouch; warrant