How to Use truism in a Sentence

truism

noun

• That’s sort of a truism that’s tinged with a bit of humor.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Apr. 2022
• There is a truism in the NBA that the ball will find energy.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• But there’s a truism in basketball that says the jumper is the last thing to go.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2023
• But, as the truism goes, music stepped in where words failed.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022
• Scat Cat is the one who lays out that rock solid truism for us.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• Yes, for years these two truisms have been in conflict.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
• The future of the American board is already here, as the truism goes.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2022
• Prison -- as is often the truism -- most likely changed him.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019
• Wait long enough and everything comes back in style is an age-old truism.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2023
• At that time, it was taken as a truism that a person with a stake in the outcome of a suit could not be trusted to tell the truth.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• The last, and maybe most important, truism of January at the gym?
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• At the heart of these collectors’ tales is a truism about watch collecting: The stories are the point.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
• Waiting in line for tacos is a truism of life in Los Angeles.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• There’s an old racing truism that pace makes the race, and that could definitely be the case in the 146th Preakness.
  — Frank Vespe, baltimoresun.com, 14 May 2021
• One truism of wine and food pairings that will never go out of style is that red wine and steak are a perfect match.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2022
• There's a barstool somewhere in Iowa City -- And the one truism about all of these is the unexpected will occur.
  — NBC News, 2 Feb. 2020
• One of the truisms of the past three decades of terrorism is that jihadist threats rarely remain local.
  — Bruce Hoffman and Seth G. Jones, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
• The corollary to this truism of the job market is that job-hunting is all about connections.
  — Ellevate, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• The first inning on Tuesday night dialed this truism up to 11 and then kept going.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• The idea that movies run on empathy — a key insight of the great film critic Roger Ebert — is by now something of a truism.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• All of the above is perhaps only a long-winded way of saying an old market truism: don’t fight the Fed.
  — Brad McMillan, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Wealth always drives culture, a truism that hardly needs to be said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• All the while one truism remains: Nothing beats one-on-one therapy and hands-on care.
  — Joyce Wiswell For The Knee Institute, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2018
• There are as many truisms about editing a film as there are filmmakers.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Asher would be the first to invoke the truism that Whitney inspires him to be a better person.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• To rework that old truism about hypocrisy, McConnell’s vice can no longer be bothered to pay tribute to virtue.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
• Hordes of travelers want to get away for the weekend, and airfares reflect that truism.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• President Trump poured gas onto this truism; 2021 lit the fuse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• This brings to mind a truism that has never lost its relevance: Even the devil can quote scripture.
  — Patty Limerick, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• This is a truism in all of professional baseball, not just the majors.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024