How to Use evidentiary in a Sentence

evidentiary

adjective
  • The city or state has to make its case and meet evidentiary goals.
    — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • That mine shaft turned out to be filled with evidentiary gold.
    — Paul Larosa, CBS News, 12 June 2018
  • Both sides would now have to fight it out in court in an evidentiary hearing.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • There is a wider evidentiary trail being laid, too.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 10 June 2026
  • The evidentiary stage of the trial is expect to last about a month.
    — Michael Tarm, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There isn’t anything of an evidentiary nature that proves this to be the case.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • At the end of the second stage, called evidentiary hearings, the board votes.
    — Anna Douglas, charlotteobserver, 28 Sep. 2017
  • From the first legal filing to the last, this was an evidentiary wipeout.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But the answer isn’t to lower the evidentiary bar.
    — Kyle P. Edmonds, STAT, 9 Apr. 2026
  • There have been no trials yet, and no evidentiary findings by any tribunal.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The evidentiary phase of the trial is expected to last four weeks.
    — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The process of evidentiary hearings on the case will begins in April.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • If so, the court must hold an evidentiary hearing and then make a decision, the opinion says.
    — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 18 July 2019
  • Any chance to add fuel to the evidentiary fire is one the attorneys cannot, and should not, ignore.
    — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Instead, the appeals court sent the case back to the lower court for an evidentiary hearing.
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The state court judge is expected to rule on the evidentiary issues in May.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The board will then hold an evidentiary hearing starting on March 9.
    — al, 6 Feb. 2022
  • His gaze drifted to the side of the courtroom as the evidentiary hearing date was debated and set.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
  • She is scheduled to hear an evidentiary hearing in the case Monday.
    — Mark Fazlollah, Philly.com, 12 June 2018
  • By the time the curtain raises, evidentiary issues have largely been worked out.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Bystanders also took video from the air and water nearby, which may or may not have evidentiary value.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The evidentiary portion of Doughty’s trial lasted less than two full days.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2022
  • The commission will then schedule the date and time for the evidentiary portion of the hearing.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2020
  • An evidentiary hearing would likely last at least a week, Marques said.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025
  • All four men were ordered to return for an evidentiary hearing on March 4.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • An evidentiary hearing — a quasi-trial of sorts — against the four will happen in the next several months.
    — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • An evidentiary hearing in the case had been scheduled for Monday.
    — Laura Romero, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But the devices do serve both to immerse readers in the rush of history and paper over evidentiary gaps.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • The tip led police to serve the evidentiary search warrant on Rose's property.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
  • While the court is scheduled to hold evidentiary hearings next week, a decision from the court on media access could come at any time.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024

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