Example sentences for: truisms

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

  • But these are natural conversations, and it evidently takes so little to make people laugh--an apt metaphor seems to send them into paroxysms of laughter--that one need no longer wonder at the success of stand-up comedians who rarely say anything funny but focus on reminding their audiences of truisms.

  • To seize that opportunity, Cook counsels strategies that, despite his simplistic truisms, are both complicated and risky.

  • The spot plays to a couple of postindustrial truisms: that proof of human workmanship qualifies as more; and that more is better.

  • It is one thing to utter little truisms here and there during one's lifetime, sprinkling them about like sesame seeds on a bagel; it is quite another to make a fetish out of collecting such tripe.

  • (For example, you can jump from this page to a piece Holzer did earlier this year,in which people got to create and post their very own Jenny Holzer truisms.)


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