Example sentences for: truth

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

  • This statement harks back to a famous 1958 essay by the literary critic George Steiner, who asked "whether the German language had survived the Hitler era, whether words poisoned by Goebbels and used to regulate and justify Belsen could ever again serve the needs of moral truth and poetic perception."

  • Michael Isikoff, the Newsweek reporter whom Brill criticizes, notes, first, that the full exchange is equivocal--Lewinsky also tells Tripp the president doesn't think she is going to tell the truth.

  • But the truth is that KKR's success illustrates a more mundane--but even more important--point, which is that managers of a company perform better when they're held accountable by the owners of that company.

  • The issue of pronoun agreement might be laid at the door of the feminists' misguided interference with the forces of language, resulting in a nervous rejection of the masculine pronoun as the neutral one; but, in truth, the sustenance of the singular nature of words like each, everybody, everyone, etc. is probably pedantry, for sense and logic are not sacrificed by changing them to plurals, with the added benefit of avoiding the dreaded he/his/him, regarded by feminists as the bearer of the stigma of male machismo.

  • In the words of Howard Baker, a playwright, “The dramatist has a responsibility to a higher truth than mere authenticity.”


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