Example sentences for: half-truths

How can you use “half-truths” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He has devised a number of lies and half-truths to convey this.

  • American culture has always fed off half-truths about authenticity, and this is the way in which alternative country is a genuine expression of something: Hipsters with a sense of ironic detachment, like Chicago's Moonshine Willy, have as much claim to the "real" America as any mule-driver.

  • 5 and 6 are half-truths, of which the true portion applies to all three programs.

  • "It cannot be long now before the tissue of half-truths and leaks is stripped away and something resembling the truth is told," it said, accusing the president of "a pattern of slipperiness."

  • … [H]e retreats behind religious platitudes, empty sloganeering and half-truths."


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