How to Use pass judgment on in a Sentence

pass judgment on

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  • But Cronenberg doesn’t pass judgment on it or shake his fist at the sky.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • Life’s inflection points can be tough to pass judgment on at first.
    — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Now the time had come for the federal government to pass judgment on Jake Peart.
    — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Like, with Will Smith’s slap, everybody wanted to pass judgment on that.
    — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Oct. 2022
  • They‘d better get used to it: For months to come, they’ll be pressed to pass judgment on every twist and turn of the current front-runner’s legal odyssey.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Does the United States, with its own sketchy record, have the moral authority to pass judgment on tribal decisions?
    — Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Sadler did not pass judgment on the underlying argument: whether DeWine had the power to block payments.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Even so, there has been little hesitation to pass judgment on Mr. Musharraf in recent days.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, the state’s strategy seemed designed to win over jurors who saw something criminal in what Chauvin did but did not want to pass judgment on all police.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The Mountain West postponed fall football on Monday but did not pass judgment on basketball and other winter sports.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Any reader inclined to pass judgment on Bree most certainly hasn’t suffered through the illness of addiction or walked alongside a loved one’s journey.
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Nothing establishes a congressional power to challenge an electoral vote or pass judgment on its validity.
    — John Yoo, National Review, 28 Feb. 2022
  • This frustration culminated in episode 45 when the public took the opportunity of a compatibility vote to oust Olivia (based entirely on a desire to eliminate the contestant rather than genuinely pass judgment on the compatibility of her couple).
    — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023

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