How to Use judgment in a Sentence

judgment

noun
  • I won a judgment against the bank.
  • The court granted a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs.
  • We have to make a judgment about the value of their services.
  • The judgment of the editors is final.
  • Use your own best judgment.
  • Don't rush to judgment without examining the evidence.
  • That would have changed if the EU judgment had gone the other way.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But the risk of judgment does not go into that too much.
    Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
  • States make such health and safety judgments all the time.
    The Editors, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The appeals court reversed that judgment and sent the case back.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 4 July 2024
  • Though some of the property was seized and auctioned, most of the judgment hadn’t been paid.
    Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
  • As with the rest of the film, Sorelle withholds from making many judgments here too.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The letter does not mean the department has made any judgment as to the merit of the case.
    Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
  • If a judgment sides with the landlord, the tenant can be evicted.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
  • This was the purpose: to clear your mind without judgment.
    Kyle Dillon Hertz, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But if the non-boyfriend boyfriend is not your thing, then that’s not your thing — no judgment either way.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The case, first reported in Tech Crunch, is one of the first of its kind to come to judgment in the post-peak-Covid landscape.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Teens don’t have fully formed frontal lobes, the part of the brain that controls impulse and judgment.
    Maida Lynn Chen, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • That’s how much Trump owes in total legal judgments against him since the start of 2023.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The film sifts through all of this with clear eyes, imagination, and a lack of overt judgment.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
  • If a judgment sides with the landlord, the tenant can be evicted.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
  • But a fear of judgment and ridicule has always held me back from taking the plunge in public.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2023
  • No judgment, no conflict, and an abundance of laughs are the hallmark of this group.
    Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • Maybe because his decision to give her the tea is a very small act of judgment.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The key is experience, good judgment, and the courage to speak truth to power.
    Sam Nunn, TIME, 2 Nov. 2024
  • This judgment, like the magazine’s assessment of the threat of WMD, has proved to be false.
    John B. Judis, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2023
  • This is a state issue, Kristen, and each state should make their own judgment on this.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The world should be able to see what's happening and make their own judgments about what's going on.
    CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The coming trial will also determine whether the former Trump lawyer has to relinquish his World Series rings as part of the judgment.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Giuliani has maintained that the Palm Beach property is his personal residence now and should be shielded from the judgment.
    Melissa Goldin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025

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