How to use hearsay in a sentence

Examples of hearsay by meaning

More sentences with hearsay

• The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.From the entry knit
• These hearsay claims are intrinsically undocumentable.From the entry undocumentable
• The rationale for the rule excluding hearsay evidence—the unassessability of such evidence—also underlies Glithero J .'s ruling.1996, Canadian Criminal Cases—Third Series, volume 106, page 127. From the entry unassessability
• Mannion and Officer Boyle was without probative force because their hearsay statements were uncrossexamined.1978, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Thomas V. Brierton, page 14. From the entry uncrossexamined
• And yet just such uncrossexamined hearsay statements were used by the Court in Roviaro v.1978, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Thomas V. Brierton, page 14. From the entry uncrossexamined
• Hearsay even got "freeped." "Freepers," followers of a rightist Web site called Free Republic, orchestrated a "Freeper Call to Action."2000 February 28, James V. Grimaldi, “Hearsay: The Lawyer's Column; Keeping Up With the Gundersons”, in The Washington Post. From the entry rightist
• LiveJournal, scholarship v. journalism, fact v. hearsay, amateur v. professional—fall by the wayside as the emphasis lands more on potentialities of reading and writing.2006, Joe Amato, Industrial poetics: demo tracks for a mobile culture. From the entry codework
• Now, as for this thing that resembles a sea-lungs, he says that he saw it himself, but that all the rest he tells from hearsay.2004, Sylvie Honigman, The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria. From the entry sea-lungs
• The Judge held that a hearingless attachment based upon a "hearsay complaint and conclusory affidavit without any judicial inquiry" violates procedural due process.1983, The Maritime Lawyer, volume 8, page 246. From the entry hearingless
• Their steepness and abruptness were even greater than I had imagined from hearsay, and suggested nothing in common with the prosaic objective world we know.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry prosaic
• Chang's self-exile, however, aroused rather than thwarted her readers' desire; and they consumed anecdotes and hearsay about her life as eagerly as they did any of her works.1998, Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang, The Rice Sprout Song, page xi. From the entry self-exile
• But defense lawyers have compared the case to a "trashy novel" in which the Government presented plenty of gossip, hearsay and innuendo but little credible evidence. . . .1988 August 25, Jesus Rangel, “Mob Trial Going to Jury Today in Jersey”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Aug 2009. From the entry fall on one's face

Meaning of hearsay

1. noun Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
2. noun Evidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge.
3. noun An out-of-court statement offered in court to prove the truth of the matter asserted (or the in-court testimony which recites such a statement), which is normally inadmissible (because it is not subject to cross-examination) unless it falls under one of a number of exceptions.

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Questions about hearsay in a sentence

How do you use hearsay in a sentence?

Hearsay is used as a noun. For example: “The story turned out to be nothing but hearsay.”

What is a short sentence with hearsay?

“based on hearsay”

What does hearsay mean?

Hearsay means information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.