TRULY in a Sentence

Learn TRULY 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.

For TRULY, below is one of 153 sentences:
We are speaking god and goddess to one another, and you ask me why I have come here, and I will tell you truly as you would have me do.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRULY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
truly
 ad.  with sincerity; without pretense
Classic Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
1  This was a truly thrilling scene, though some persons might have thought that the sudden tumbling down of a quantity of long red hair rather marred the effect of the villain's death.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
2  I will try, Mother, I truly will.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
3  Why, you pile up your hands, choose a number, and draw out in turn, and the person who draws at the number has to answer truly any question put by the rest.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
4  Esther was truly pious, and quite sincere in her advice, for she had an affectionate heart, and felt much for the sisters in their anxiety.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
5  I haven't flirted, Mother, truly, but remembered what you said to me, and have done my very best.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
6  I can't say 'yes' truly, so I won't say it at all.'
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
7  For poverty enriches those who live above it, and is a sure passport to truly hospitable spirits.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
8  And Minerva answered, "I will tell you truly and particularly all about it."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK I
9  I will tell you truly," answered Nestor, "and indeed you have yourself divined how it all happened.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK III
10  We are speaking god and goddess to one another, and you ask me why I have come here, and I will tell you truly as you would have me do.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
11  Telemachus said, "I will answer you quite truly."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
12  And Telemachus answered, "I will tell you truly everything."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
13  I will tell you everything," answered Ulysses, "quite truly.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
14  The school, thus improved, became in time a truly useful and noble institution.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  He loved me so truly, that he knew no reluctance in profiting by my attendance: he felt I loved him so fondly, that to yield that attendance was to indulge my sweetest wishes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  He is truly happy who makes others happy.
17  A person who truly loves you will never let you go, no matter how hard the situation is.
18  The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
19  Foreign visitors help to give a truly international flavour to the occasion.
20  The piece ends with a truly poetic slow movement.
21  She truly believes that none of this is her fault.
22  She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels.
23  Annette's performance as Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" was truly memorable.
24  This is a truly beautiful picture.
25  A man who truly loves you will never let you go, no matter how hard the situation is.
26  They may be trying to protect their rich pickings, but this is also in line with President Putin's ambition to see Russian business as a truly international player.
27  I am truly thankful for the stocks, which would appreciate in value considerably in future years.
28  I truly believe this set back, my bet is they will recover and move on, hopefully sooner than soon.
29  One aspect of my marriage that I truly cherish is the way Darrell and I work together as a team.
30  What they truly despise is the European Union, not any country.