[ UK /tɹˈuːθ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹuθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a fact that has been verified
    at last he knew the truth
    the truth is that he didn't want to do it
  2. conformity to reality or actuality
    he was famous for the truth of his portraits
    they debated the truth of the proposition
    the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat
    he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities
  3. a true statement
    he told the truth
    he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it
  4. the quality of being near to the true value
    the lawyer questioned the truth of my account
    he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass
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How To Use truth In A Sentence

  • You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
  • The dress wasn't low cut, but in truth she didn't have a lot of cleavage to reveal, her figure being quite elfin.
  • Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance. On Compromise
  • Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
  • New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut 
  • For Rosenstock-Huessy, the vocative is the condition of dialogue and hence the real condition of a new truth. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • And this is the cause that disputes with such persons are generally fruitless, especially as immixed with that intemporancy of reviling other men wherein they exceed; for if that be a way either of learning or teaching of the truth, it is what the Scripture hath not instructed us in. Pneumatologia
  • The unpleasant truth is that hiding behind private ownership only hides the fall in value from people who choose not to look.
  • Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction. The New Jerusalem
  • The truth is, there is a certain diet which emaciates men more than any possible degree of abstinence; though I do not remember to have seen any caution against it, either in Cheney, Arbuthnot, or in any other modern writer or regimen. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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