How to Use fallacy in a Sentence

fallacy

noun

• The fallacy of their ideas about medicine soon became apparent.
• Part of the fun of it, in a way, is trying to find the fallacy or the hole in the dastardly scheme.
  — Dallas News, 13 July 2021
• The move, alongside the death of CNN+, shows that Zaslav is no fan of the sunk-cost fallacy.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Even if that is true, the notion that this proves Trump was wrong is a fallacy.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
• Back home in New York, the fallacy plays out in reverse.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 7 July 2017
• Early on, when Lasley is still in the first flush of love, a friend tells her what a sunk-cost fallacy is.
  — Amber Medland, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2022
• The idea the food doesn’t need to be subsidized, that tech workers make so much, is a fallacy.
  — Nellie Bowles, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2018
• There's a fallacy out there that there's a partnership, and there's not.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2021
• The notion that the plant kingdom is benign is a fallacy.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2019
• The movie is slightly prone to such fallacies, starting with the title.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• The fallacy lies in the assumption that any of these pickups could replace a car.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 25 Feb. 2023
• On the menu today: the economics of a blue wave and a reevaluation of the sunk cost fallacy.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
• There’s a bit of a fallacy in that some expect teams that have overachieved to maintain their success for the rest of the season.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• The whole question, though, rests on a fallacy: that the N.F.L. has ever been a politics-free zone.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2017
• There has developed a huge fallacy that great risotto is not a dish to be tried at home.
  — Fred Thompson, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• So a good way to combat the planning fallacy is to break up a complex project into many sub-tasks.
  — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• The problem with this loaded question is that it is based in fallacy.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• Many have already pointed out the fallacies in Trump’s tweets.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• The reason the media can’t understand why Drudge has turned on Trump is because the fallacy is in the question.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 1 May 2020
• The mind-set of modern sports is that winning is the only thing that matters, a fallacy that is a fast-track route to misery.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
• The argument is that the demonstration was built on a big straw man fallacy.
  — Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
• But places like a simple blue-and-white wood frame home in Durham, North Carolina expose the fallacy of that view.
  — Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 26 Apr. 2021
• So the context of him committing suicide while on watch, that’s just a fallacy.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
• These self-conscious times have furnished us with a new fallacy.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2020
• To see only the happy or loving aspects of the Bible is to embrace a fallacy, one the Bible itself wants to dispel.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• The antidote to the price-equals-wealth fallacy is to scale down your expectations.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• That’s a fallacy that tribal nations spend a lot of time trying to dispel.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• Adele is trying to teach you an economics lesson in the sunk-cost fallacy.
  — Natalie Lin, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
• The sunk cost fallacy is the silent killer of rational decision-making.
  — Mark Kane, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• As Oklahoma State professor Steve Trost puts it, economic forecasts are a fallacy.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024