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 truth is what the diss track was a long time ago, and that's it.
    — Angie Orellana Hernandez, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
  • 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 there are still times when the blunt truth hurts and people need to hear it.
    — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And the truth is, many fuel pumps last the life of the vehicle.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The truth is that birth control isn’t one-size-fits-all.
    — Casey Gueren, SELF, 26 July 2022
  • But in truth, Olsen, a four-star recruit, has yet to face the NIL front.
    — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The advisers are scared to tell him the truth, the intel says.
    — Aamer Madhani and Nomaan Merchant, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In the show, the truth of her adoption is revealed by her adult self.
    — ELLE, 29 July 2022
  • 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
  • But the truth is, there are no answers that will soothe his pain.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • There's no way to listen to that tape and to think that Kevin McCarthy told the truth.
    — ABC News, 1 May 2022
  • The banning of any of these books is deeply anti-truth.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Experts say there is a grain of truth to the claim − but with a lot more nuance.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Live your truth and the people in your life will figure it out.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • But the truth is, that sign won’t come from anyone else or any date or event...
    — Kim Tranell, Seventeen, 23 Jan. 2023
  • His approach with the kids, who range from middle school to college, is to just tell his truth.
    — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2025
  • And the universal truth is that young people have a lot of emotions.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 May 2025

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