Example sentences for: truth-telling

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

  • And there is certainly something romantic in the notion that America needs an honorable, truth-telling president like him.

  • The NYT runs an op-ed by writer Janna Malamud Smith that states "If we're going to make simplistic rules about truth-telling, mine would start here: Ms.

  • Peter Applebome, who wrote the Times obit, wins truth-telling points for a paragraph that began, "Mr. Morris drank too much bourbon and red wine, smoked too many Viceroys, stayed up too late and caroused too much."

  • Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposés, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like "dual hegemony," "limited nuclear war," and the slogan "win the peace" to the American language.

  • Dole, the picture says again, is from the heartland, the land of plain virtue and truth-telling.


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