sit in judgment

Example Sentences

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If you decide not to sit in judgment of this couple, then your relationship with these family members shouldn’t be adversely affected.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2022

Zink lovingly lampoons the way that teenagers bumble toward identity and character: “Henry regarded himself as an ethical person with a right to sit in judgment because he knew first aid,” she writes.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2022

That's unlikely, wrote Roberts, because a court generally "does not sit in judgment of one of its own members' recusal decision in the course of deciding a case."

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2022

So it seems equally outlandish to imagine that a tribunal with the power of those at Tokyo and Nuremberg will ever sit in judgment on the leaders of this country.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Once upon a long-lost time, people had believed it, and had believed, too, that the seraphim would return one day and sit in judgment over them.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor