How to Use justification in a Sentence

justification

noun

• He tried to present a justification for his behavior.
• There is no possible justification for what she did.
• His behavior is without justification.
• But that is not a justification for some of the things he’s written.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 19 Dec. 2017
• The Chloe’s guest rooms are justification enough for locals to stay for a night or two.
  — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2020
• Sort through the justification for each of these two stances to determine the best for you.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 30 Aug. 2018
• The Kremlin was quick to cite the attack as a justification for its war.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• Still, nine hours of self-justification is a lot, and that’s where A Friend of the Family spends most of its time.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
• The justification for the change is a matter of debate.
  — Brian Slodysko, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2018
• The judge found no competitive justification for the league’s age rule and no harm to the league in lifting the rule.
  — oregonlive, 30 June 2021
• And there is no real justification for any of this to need the blockchain as an essential part of the process.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
• Abroad, even here in the U.S., that same fear can be mustered, even if with much less justification.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
• There's a good amount of justification for the acclaim.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• Here among all the talk is the raw face of power, without gloss or metaphor, the thing that needs no justification but itself.
  — Laura Tanenbaum, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
• Forgive me, but this feels like a lot of justification after-the-fact.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
• There is no justification for that kind of cruelty, and no greater good that can come of it.
  — Nadia Murad, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2018
• There was none of the remorse or justification seen from the Griselda character in the show.
  — Laura Zornosa, TIME, 26 Jan. 2024
• For some inside Gaza, all the warnings in the world would be no justification for forcing them to flee their homes.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• Then there is the disconnect between the board and state’s own choices and the flurry of law-is-the-law justifications.
  — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
• But the $110 million cost of rebuilding the school is not justification for a bond measure of five times that amount.
  — East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• There was no doubt that was, in fact, the underlying justification for the work.
  — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
• That sort of justification is tough to swallow, whether in real life or on film.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• Musk provided no justification or proof to back up his claim at the time.
  — Kerry Flynn, CNN, 2 Dec. 2019
• Kya is revealed to be the murderer, but the killing has moral justification.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 July 2022
• There is no justification for leaving a child on a table to die.
  — Russell D. Moore, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
• Injuries have helped bring about those tough times and should be justification enough to make Gruden's job safe.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
• The drone — a consumer model available at Best Buy — would be central to the Israeli justification for the strike.
  — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• One of the common threads of any genocide is its justification.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 20 June 2018
• The justification is that when the leaves fall, they should be left alone to decompose, enriching the soil below.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 18 Oct. 2024
• In many cases, states have stopped bothering to make legal justifications at all, the Human Rights Committee report warned.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024