sit in judgment

Example Sentences

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“To live is to battle with trolls in heart and mind; to write is to sit in judgment of oneself.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

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

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