TRUTH in a Sentence

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For TRUTH, below is one of 365 sentences:
It was annoying the way Melly always misconstrued her motives--but perhaps that was far preferable to having her suspect the truth.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRUTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
truth
 n.  the quality of being true
 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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (155 in 11 pages)
16  Nothing is really beautiful but truth.
17  We managed to piece together the truth from several sketchy accounts.
18  When wine is in truth is out.
19  The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
20  The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
21  Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
22  Children and fools speak the truth.
23  Children and fools tell the truth.
24  To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation.
25  Nature is the glass reflecting truth.
26  Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
27  Change lays not her hand upon truth.
28  Sooner or later, the truth comes to light.
29  A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.
30  Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.