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How to use hearsay in a sentence

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But though Einhard declared he would record nothing through hearsay, he also glossed over facts unfavourable to his hero.
So, an unlabelled film you haven't seen yet with no more provenance than hearsay contains conclusive proof?
These are not concrete facts, but hearsay from my brother, who maintains a friendship with them both.
They have accepted hearsay, endorsed scurrilous attacks, and walked away from their responsibilities as pastoral shepherds and teachers.
Meanwhile they continue to publish more third-hand hearsay from the British insurance industry.
Traditionally hearsay evidence was inadmissible, subject to certain defined exceptions.
It is extremely likely that these witnesses would either lie or be giving inadmissible hearsay evidence.
Instead witnesses are allowed to give hearsay evidence of an identification that takes place outside the court.
There again, who am I to make sweeping generalisations about the movie based merely on hearsay and gossip?
As in the first instance above, I find this hearsay evidence to be necessary as the declarant is now deceased.
In relation to the other concerns raised by the woman, he pointed these were very subjective matters and hearsay.
The following statements are admitted under the principled approach to hearsay.
All of this proceeds on the basis that hearsay evidence is probative and, therefore, relevant.
These powers include the ability to convict suspects by innuendo, hearsay and rumour.
Anonymous testimony and intelligence based on hearsay are often inadmissible in civilian courts.
There would be more stories to tell, stories I learned from hearsay, but I haven't talked in person to the people concerned.
The irony has often been that charges were based on hearsay and rumour rather than on proper research and verification.
I'd better make it clear here that this is all gossip and hearsay, and I'm certainly not going to name my sources.
This being a small town, the community is awash with rumour, secrets and hearsay, often tinged with a touch of mysticism.
All we have is hearsay provided by the author, and hearsay doesn't make for a balanced and accurate story.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Even grown people knew nothing, except by vague hearsay, of cheese so runny that if you didn't care to eat it you could drink it.
He there recorded a 1593 Doctrina, but adamantly refused to accept it on the hearsay evidence of others.
There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.
And you had no information direct or indirect of any kind or character, scuttlebutt, hearsay or otherwise, up to that moment?
Remember, my dear madam, all I have been telling you reached myself as hearsay.
For him it was purely a matter of hearsay which could not in itself cause this emotion.
Mr. lunt here intervened and said it was the custom for the District Attorney to swear to complaints on hearsay evidence.
Anything else I said would be hearsay, and I understand that he did receive some cortisone.
Why should he not have learned from hearsay that Romano had made statues?
You do not know these men, Monsieur Comminges, but I know them, first personally, also by hearsay.
She uttered these words as if the gondolas were a curious faraway craft which she knew only by hearsay.
Heathfield has sworn to no facks but th' existence of speer's hearsay.
The inventor of the language probably got what he knew about a conscience from hearsay.
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it.
All this I know well myself, more by experience than by hearsay, and some day, senora, I will enlighten you on the subject, for I am of your flesh and blood too.
Captain Wragge had begun by interesting her in the remote past, which she only knew by hearsay, before he ventured on the delicate ground of her own experience.
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