How to Use falsehood in a Sentence

falsehood

noun

• Lara, like many of Trump’s devotees, helped to spread that falsehood.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 12 July 2024
• But the last decade has made the extent—and the consequences—of online falsehoods all the more clear.
  — Paris Martineau, Wired, 30 Dec. 2019
• We will not be gulled by the frauds and falsehoods of the Kremlin’s apologists.
  — Lloyd J. Austin Iii, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
• But then came Frey’s fall from grace, as his tale was found to be peppered with falsehoods.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
• And these are just the falsehoods Musk tweeted himself.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
• In July, a tweet made the rounds spreading a falsehood about voting.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• And shame on the NRA and the gun lobby for trying to mislead people with falsehoods.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• In the end, Trump did not proactively stoke the falsehood - but did not play it down either.
  — Author: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Matt Viser, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2020
• Forget the absurd falsehood about Sasse and Afghanistan.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
• This was to be the only verifiable falsehood of the whole day.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
• But the message, the army clarified hours later on X, turned out to be a falsehood.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• The effects of Cartwright's falsehood, and others like it, linger today.
  — Jacque Smith, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
• Supporters of Trump, backed by an online army, pushed the falsehood that the election was stolen.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• But Trump could also use the platform to spread falsehoods, as he's done on Truth Social.
  — Julia Ingram, CBS News, 5 June 2024
• This piece will debunk that falsehood from start to finish.
  — Matt Shapiro, National Review, 8 June 2021
• The ad’s claim has been dubbed a falsehood by Washington Post fact-checkers.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• Still, Albert added that students deserve to know what's going on in the U.S. and around the world, and telling partial truths equates to a falsehood.
  — Emily Bloch, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
• Trump and his allies spread falsehoods about the validity of the vote count in Detroit in 2020.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
• All four of them go after the same thing, this truth/falsehood issue, and blur between the two, which is how the world has approached me for so many years.
  — Nick Hilden, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Yet Adler, not unlike others, left his mark on that falsehood.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
• The same image and attached falsehood have spread on Twitter.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
• The agency launched a new web page this week to mitigate the damage of widespread falsehoods.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
• The media took this press release and added a further layer of falsehood.
  — Jay Bhattacharya and Tom Nicholson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
• But even Emmer has worked to spread election falsehoods.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
• Readers wouldn’t need to look too hard to find the falsehood themselves, the sheriff’s office noted.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
• Fears have spurred falsehoods, which, like the virus, are spreading on social media.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2020
• There was a time when Mr. Santos expressed regret for some of those falsehoods.
  — Michael Gold, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• This week, a senior News Corp employee sent an all-staff email calling for the falsehoods to stop.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020
• The First Amendment depends on an unconstrained marketplace of ideas to sift truth from falsehood.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
• Looking Ahead The central challenge is swiftly distinguishing between truth and falsehood in an era where milliseconds matter.
  — Yasin Dus, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Jan 2025