TRUTH in a Sentence

Learn TRUTH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
365 example sentences for TRUTH, such as:
1. Art is a lie that tells the truth.
2. Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
3. All truth is not always to be told.
4. Her account was a perversion of the truth.
5. She was very reluctant to admit the truth.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TRUTH
truth
 n.  a true statement
 n.  a fact that has been verified
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Both bowed to the inexorable truth: they knew that Zeena never changed her mind, and that in her case a resolve once taken was equivalent to an act performed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  "Oh," cried Scarlett, fresh pain striking her as Gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  She knew that her mother was the embodiment of justice, truth, loving tenderness and profound wisdom--a great lady.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  It would be interesting to know who was the father of Emmie Slattery's baby, but Scarlett knew she would never learn the truth of the matter if she waited to hear it from her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  She said "fiddle-dee-dee" many times, declared that the truth wasn't in any of them, and vowed that she'd never believe anything any man told her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  His were doubly confusing because she had a vague idea there was truth in them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  It was annoying the way Melly always misconstrued her motives--but perhaps that was far preferable to having her suspect the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  She thought: "They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn't."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  Other people might call his utterances treachery but, to Scarlett, they always rang with common sense and truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  That there was truth in his last words did not occur to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Somewhere, Ashley was fighting, perhaps dying, and the newspaper office was the only place where she could learn the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  Well, she'd make up some pitiful story about a soldier in the hospital who needed it and Rhett need never know the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  The truth was that the North was holding the South in a virtual state of siege, though many did not realize it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  The ladies smiled approvingly, for his lightest utterance was regarded as incontrovertible truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  Rhett, Captain Randall was lying to me, just like all the men do-- trying to keep the truth from us women for fear we'll faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (155 in 11 pages)
1  Larry had concluded that he had no choice but to accept Paul's words as the truth.
2  Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.
3  There is not the least element of truth in his account of what happened.
4  Her account was a perversion of the truth.
5  She was very reluctant to admit the truth.
6  She stubbornly refuses to admit the truth.
7  All truth is not always to be told.
8  We also realize the truth of that old saying: Charity begins at home.
9  I am wholly incredulous of the truth of his story.
10  Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
11  You must acknowledge the truth of her argument.
12  Art is a lie that tells the truth.
13  The article was headlined 'Tell us the truth'.
14  It was another attempt to distract attention from the truth.
15  The truth is cruel,but it can be loved,and it makes free those who have loved it.