Use circumstantial in a sentence
Sentences ending with circumstantial
- But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body of the slain; and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential,--in other words, circumstantial. [3]
- The evidence is not merely circumstantial. [11]
Short sentences using circumstantial
- Strong circumstantial evidence of insanity. [5]
- Here was circumstantial evidence. [11]
- We have only circumstantial evidence. [5]
More example sentences with the word circumstantial in them
- About this person we shall have accumulated no little circumstantial knowledge;--thus, his face, figure, gait, his mode of dressing, of saluting, perhaps even of speaking, may be familiar to us; yet who he is we know not. [6]
- Since the evidence was purely circumstantial, there must be no flaw in its cable of assumption, it must be logically inviolate within itself. [11]
- There is nothing strikingly remarkable about it; but one can say of it as of the Academy of Music in New York, that if a broom or a shovel has ever been used in it there is no circumstantial evidence to back up the fact. [5]
- And they furthermore stated their belief that he was not dead, and instanced the strong circumstantial evidence of his own word that he was dead--and beseeched the coroner to delay the funeral as long as possible, which was done. [5]
- I will furnish some circumstantial evidence in support of this charge. [5]
- This is a significant detail, and is good circumstantial evidence that the moa has been extinct 500 years, since the Maori has himself--by tradition--been in New Zealand since the end of the fifteenth century. [5]
- Every such instance requires a good deal of circumstantial explanation before it can be accepted. [3]
- Could it be otherwise, with what was behind her life--a husband who had ruined her youth, had committed homicide, had escaped capture, but who had not subsequently died, as the world believed he had done, so circumstantial was the evidence. [11]
- This last is only circumstantial evidence, but I think it has value. [5]
- His brother, perishing of consumption, hunger, thirst, blazing heat, drowning rains, loss of sleep, lack of exercise, was persistently faithful and circumstantial with his diary from the first day to the last--an instance of noteworthy fidelity and resolution. [5]
- Burlingame was present, not to defend Orlando, because it was not a trial, but to watch his interests in the face of staggering circumstantial evidence. [11]
- You see how much I think of circumstantial evidence. [5]
- When at last morning came I breakfasted early, searching the newspapers for accounts of the occurrence at Templar's Hall; and the fact that these were neither conspicuous nor circumstantial was in the nature of a triumph of self-control on the part of editors and reporters. [9]
- He called it masterly; he said that in its presentations it was irrefutable; as a precis of evidence purely circumstantial it was-- useful and interesting. [11]
- You made defects in the circumstantial evidence, the imminent problems of our own salvation. [11]
- Abundant circumstantial evidence I obtained: Wilkinson's intimacy with Miro was well known, and I likewise learned that a cipher existed between them. [9]
- Now then, little George realized that circumstantial evidence was against him. [5]
- To be the friend of Swiveller you must reject all circumstantial evidence, all reason, observation, and experience, and repose a blind belief in the bookcase. [12]
- He told himself fiercely that he had nothing to be ashamed of, nor would he have acknowledged that it was a kind of shame that bade him refrain even from circumstantial accounts of what went on in room Number Seven of the Pelican. [9]
- But the hard facts remained, and on a chain of circumstantial evidence Blaze Turgeon was convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison for ten years. [11]
- It is circumstantial evidence that some soloists neglected this sacrament and others refused it. [5]
- It must be clear to the minds of judge and jury that there were fatally weak places in the circumstantial evidence offered for the conviction of this man. [11]
- I cannot know, but I am convinced, that the circumstantial evidence shows that her actual share in the work of composing and phrasing these things was so slight as to be inconsequential. [5]
- Often, how louder and clearer than any tongue, does dumb circumstantial evidence speak. [5]
- He now made a handle of my nose, to assist him shaving the corners of my upper lip, and it was by this bit of circumstantial evidence that I discovered that a part of his duties in the shop was to clean the kerosene-lamps. [5]
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