How to Use truth serum in a Sentence

truth serum

noun

• Harry joins her and this is where the truth serum is served.
  — Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, 14 May 2018
• That said, my guess is Kizer, given truth serum, would agree with Doug.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Short of a shot of truth serum, or a couple glasses of red wine, Brey’s never going to say.
  — Tom Noie, Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2020
• His love acted on me, as on everyone, like a truth serum.
  — Benjamin Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
• No law prohibits the use of truth serum, assuming the subject consents.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
• Sure, it was fueled by booze, but alcohol is as much a truth serum as anything else.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Let’s do truth serum, OK? Wouldn’t the employer maybe say it’s because this person was a man who liked other men?
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2019
• In the early years of truth serum use, this reasoning prevailed in law enforcement.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
• Steve and Robin end up getting captured, tortured and injected in truth serum.
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 26 May 2022
• There were tests to see whether LSD could be used as a truth serum or possibly be sprayed on enemy troops as a kind of weapon of mass distraction.
  — Don Lattin, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2017
• Now it was being recast as a kind of truth serum, a tool of deep personal introspection.
  — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• And while part of that is the bitter swig of truth serum that the better team won, another part is that this was a breakthrough season and a harbinger of better days ahead for K-State under Weber.
  — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 24 Mar. 2018
• The beauty that Frankie and her entourage find in the settings and outings of Sintra acts on them like a drug—not an intoxicant that lulls them into contented complacency but a kind of truth serum.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
• There are truth serums disguised as cafecitos, herbs with magical powers, prayer altars and characters hailing from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Argentina.
  — Meg Medina, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• What Mitchell also does extraordinarily well is portray a man who unintentionally uses liquor as a truth serum of sorts.
  — Andreas Hale, The Root, 9 Feb. 2018
• There’s truth serum involved, as well as an elementary-school yearbook, an interrupted road trip, too many coincidences, and a connection to a horrific crime.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2021
• The #nofilter Moussa can be disarmingly childlike and offensively straightforward, and Bouajila plays him like a zombie who’s been injected with too much truth serum.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• Amalia tricks Mundi into revealing his personal history with Mary by bringing along a touched prostitute whose turn has rendered her mere bodily presence into truth serum.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2021
• Amazingly, not one of these very smart bobble heads is an actual conservation biologist, who would, if he or she was given truth serum, have said that our most noble, high-minded environmental law is an unmitigated failure.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2011
• Another veteran, however — Mike Conley — came into his media session apparently dosed with truth serum.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024