6 sentences with “witnessed”

In the autumn of 1914 the scale of the battles grew to surpass anything Europe had witnessed since the Napoleonic Wars (soon to be dwarfed).

She reported to the police that she had witnessed a shooting, but was afraid to add that she might have been able to identify the driver of the van.

On the one hand, the 19th century witnessed spectacular political, economic and social changes that saw the birth of new nations and the demise of old kingdoms.

Dr. Epstein had witnessed Dr. Joseph Ransohoff's work with the ultrasonic aspirator on brain tumors, and wondered why the same could not be done with tumors in the spinal cord.

From the early Archaic era, Athens witnessed a series of struggles and compromises between the aristocrats - wealthy landowning families who controlled most of the land and most of the political power - and everyone else, particularly the free citizens and farmers of Athens who were not aristocrats.

In addition, the Abbasid Caliphate witnessed a significant increase in literacy. Not only were Muslims (men and women alike) encouraged to memorise the Qur'an itself, but scholars and merchants were often interchangeable; unlike medieval Christianity, Islam did not reject trade as somehow morally tainted.