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Example sentences for: truism
How can you use “truism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The first is merely a vapid truism.
In the Oct. 23 "Today's Papers," Scott Shuger writes of a Washington Post piece referring to the "Bubba vote" and notes that "this is a perfect illustration of the truism that there's still one group in this country that 'respectable' people, even (especially?)
That might seem too much of a truism even for me to express, but let me explain.
More to the point, to express this particular truism the French are more likely to say something quite different: Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras: One here-you-are is worth more than two you'll-get-it's.
And in several of these random instances of pleonasm, truism, kinky syntax, malapropos metaphor, and just plain dumb things to say, I perceived the moroxonic spirit at work.
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