How to Use truth in a Sentence

truth

noun
  • Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
  • At some point you have to face the simple truth that we failed.
  • A reporter soon discovered the truth.
  • Their explanation was simpler but came closer to the truth.
  • The article explains the truth about global warming.
  • Her story contains a grain of truth but also lots of exaggeration.
  • The little girl stared, stunned to hear the truth from the man in the costume.
    Erin Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • None of them, not a one, tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2024
  • All the truth that came out of the movie wasn’t the result of either of us.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • As with all the best lies, this one is based on a kernel of truth.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • And the truth is, many fuel pumps last the life of the vehicle.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • But in truth both sides, and the league writ large, were all out to prove something that night.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Those numbers, Carew added, may not tell the whole truth.
    Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Love asks Marienne to come over to their house and tells her the truth about Joe’s past.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
  • But in truth, the Republicans know the same thing that the Democrats do.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But the truth in fiction, there is a certain type of truth and that has to be there.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The banning of any of these books is deeply anti-truth.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
  • But the truth is, that sign won’t come from anyone else or any date or event...
    Kim Tranell, Seventeen, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Jackie Calmes: The full truth of 9/11 is still emerging.
    Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But is there any truth to the belief that rice benefits the skin?
    Alice Rosati, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
  • And the core of doing these scenes was to stay true to the emotional truth of what had happened to Richard in the past.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
  • There appears to be no truth that Biden offered to give Major to the Trumps.
    Nick Thomas, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Most staff wonder what their CEO wants to hear, rather than speaking the plain truth.
    Christian Stadler, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But somewhere in that statement, there is at least a half-truth.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
  • After all, in truth, just about nothing is too big to fail.
    Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 July 2023
  • My way of thinking about the film was that everyone gets to tell their truth.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Of course, the only way to know the real truth of Aubrey Plaza’s character is to wait and see.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2024
  • In truth, the most important eclipse of the year happens in late autumn...
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In truth, this ambivalence existed for Jacob, too, who worried that the standardization of German in schools might downgrade dialects and the very folk speech that their lives had been devoted to capturing.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • But their reckoning with difficult truths also points to a different way forward, one based on acceptance, love, and a capacity for change.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024

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