How to Use under oath in a Sentence

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  • When asked about this under oath, Sheriff Scott took the Fifth.
    — Jerry Mitchell Rory Doyle, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • Is the president prepared to say that under oath in a court of law?
    — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But it was captured on tape and described under oath by four of his deputies.
    — Rachel Axon Rory Doyle For The New York Times, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • How did the judge really feel about Trump’s 3½ hours under oath?
    — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
  • How did the judge really feel about Trump's 3½ hours under oath?
    — Michael R. Sisak, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Who knows what might be revealed when or if Lake is questioned under oath.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • It was revealed just last week that Meadows has testified under oath in that case three times since agreeing to the deal.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Huntsman cut off the questions when the then-sheriff refused to answer under oath.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The ruling helps clear the way for Mike Pence to speak under oath about the pressure Trump put him under to declare the 2020 election results invalid.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Leave it to Leo to put on a show and lie under oath ... but just like the Sun, Salvadore's mere presence brought light to unspoken truths that helped crack a high-profile case.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
  • Creech claimed at times, including under oath, to having killed as many as 42 people.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Trump erupts in a chaotic day of testimony, in a rare glimpse of ex-president under oath.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The document offers no details as to what the former judge is accused of lying under oath about.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • What the two say under oath about prices, potential store closures and the impact on workers will likely be scrutinized in the years ahead if the merger goes through.
    — CBS News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But even this testimony under oath did not stop the attacks on him, which spread from Fox News to public hearings in Congress.
    — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In recent years, Trump has been wary of answering questions under oath, given the legal intrigue swirling around him.
    — William K. Rashbaum, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Even under oath, an employee of the local company that installed the cameras, Danaide, refused to talk.
    — Karen Naundorf, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Paylor, under oath, testified that police framed him, planting the gun.
    — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Years later, under oath, Young said no law enforcement authorities ever asked him to take the file down.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Multiple people who worked in and around City Hall said under oath that Jacobs bullied and abused female colleagues.
    — Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
  • His ruling opens the way for the sides to begin the evidentiary exchange process, called discovery, which will allow each side to question the other under oath.
    — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Beach said he should be allowed to question McCarthy and Boynton under oath about when their job discussions started.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The police then conspired to fabricate evidence and lie under oath to protect their own, the defense alleged.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 27 June 2024
  • Well, a lawsuit in which he is compelled to answer questions under oath might finally settle things.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The police then conspired to fabricate evidence and lie under oath to protect their own and frame Read, her defense alleged.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 2 July 2024
  • Kristen Clarke lied to Congress under oath, the senators claim, and then manipulated a witness to conceal the felony.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 July 2024
  • Ware will appear before Congress in July to discuss his findings under oath.
    — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 28 June 2023
  • Testimony consists of answers under oath to the questions posed.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Because this chain of events will find him, possibly this week, in a place he’s spent decades trying to avoid—a courtroom, on a witness stand, under oath, answering hostile questions from smart lawyers.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Oakley wants Dolan to provide oral statements under oath and answer questions from Oakley’s attorneys.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2024

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