How to Use corroborate in a Sentence

corroborate

verb
  • The present seems to corroborate this.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Kirk Cousins might still be on the move, though that has not yet been corroborated.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • That’s corroborated by my mother, who didn’t know what to do with that.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Witnesses and videos corroborate that the teenage girl stayed still while her mom screamed.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • At first glance, things may look severe, but that has not been corroborated by any means.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But no witness on his boat or in the channel at the time of the crash corroborated the claim.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
  • The video corroborates reports this groin injury is not nearly as bad as the one last year.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • That probably should be done in writing to that the non-lawyer can corroborate that this was done.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • And Netflix and phone records seemed to help corroborate his story … at least for a while.
    — Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2020
  • They are seen as a way to corroborate Comey's account in Mueller's probe.
    — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Put in pairs to corroborate each other’s results, the dogs got close-to-perfect scores.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
  • No video has emerged to corroborate Noem’s account.
    — Russ Bynum, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Tire markings on the road seemed to corroborate that account, the complaint said.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The tools used on the carcass seem to corroborate this theory.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • Humphrey had not been in contact for years with most of the women who corroborated her account.
    — Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The reporting corroborates what people have told us off the record.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 18 May 2018
  • So far, researchers who have tried to corroborate Harpster’s claims have failed.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Hunter said police were able to corroborate many details of the crime from Raybon.
    — Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • The video appears to corroborate what's alleged in Cassie's suit.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • Longer video footage sent by the law firm and obtained by The Post corroborates the order of events.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • The new videos appear to corroborate what was described in the Guardian report.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • The documents, released by the city late last week, corroborate this sequence of events.
    — Liz Navratil, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • What the video shows Aden insisted that deputies did not go to the wrong apartment, and that the video would corroborate that.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • Many of them weren’t, though, some of them because they couldn’t be corroborated, the complaint alleged.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The photographs joyfully corroborate the text’s account of a life that cannot be the case.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Reporters from the Times have not been able to corroborate the existence of such an order.
    — Peter Baker and Charlie Savage, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • And yet, after over nine hours, the story has still not been corroborated and the divide over who is telling the truth remains.
    — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • An eyewitness on the scene was able to corroborate the victim's account of the attack.
    — Dana Guthrie, Houston Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2017
  • On top of that, the other two pilots who were flying with Cassie at the time don’t corroborate her story.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • To corroborate and collude with the Russians, with their phony dossier.
    — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018

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