How to Use stretch the truth in a Sentence

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• Our 5-year-old son has started to stretch the truth in different ways.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2020
• And as a quick Google search will illustrate, both shows sometimes stretch the truth.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2021
• Canaday echoed Fisher’s idea that people just want to impress and will stretch the truth to do it.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
• Every Alaskan knows that movies and television shows about Alaska tend to stretch the truth.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2022
• Ruffo was known to be a storyteller, someone who liked to stretch the truth, and had a desire to impress others.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• The nanometer nomenclature is now a better measure of how far companies are willing to stretch the truth.
  — Jiyoung Sohn, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• But every docudrama has to stretch the truth at various points, even ones made by more sober-minded creative teams.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2022
• And Theranos, which dissolved in 2018, is likely to stand as a warning to other Silicon Valley start-ups that stretch the truth to score funding and business deals.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• One reason is that the tone from the top of an organization matters, so when leaders are willing to stretch the truth or abuse their authority for improper purposes, this tacitly permits subordinates to do the same.
  — Ankush Khardori, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
• Since proprietary formulas only list the ingredients in weight order instead of disclosing the full amounts, manufacturers can use them to stretch the truth regarding the exact contents of their product.
  — Norcal Marketing, Chron, 4 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024