TRUTHFUL in a Sentence

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But when he glanced at her and saw those sweet truthful eyes fastened questioningly on him, he repeated it with his whole heart.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRUTHFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
truthful
 a.  conforming to truth
 a.  expressing or given to expressing the truth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Although I think I had never really feared it, in any season of cool reflection, it was an unspeakable relief to me to have this assurance from her own truthful lips.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
2  Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
3  Vronsky could not understand how she, with her strong and truthful nature, could endure this state of deceit, and not long to get out of it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 23
4  I know," she interrupted him, "how hard it is for your truthful nature to lie, and I grieve for you.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 23
5  This was so simply said, and so sweet was the truthful and candid expression of her face, that the princess saw why Kitty had taken such a fancy to Varenka.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 31
6  At the very instant when this apparition was vanishing, the truthful eyes glanced at him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
7  No," said Kitty, blushing, but looking at him all the more boldly with her truthful eyes; "a girl may be so circumstanced that she cannot live in the family without humiliation, while she herself.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 13
8  He saw nothing but her clear, truthful eyes, frightened by the same bliss of love that flooded his heart.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 15
9  She stopped and went on again, looking at him resolutely with her truthful eyes, "Even when I thrust from me my happiness."
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 16
10  He saw already from her loving, truthful face, that nothing could come of what he had meant to say, but yet he wanted her to reassure him herself.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 2
11  The truthful eyes told Levin that she was satisfied with herself, and in spite of her blushing he was quickly reassured and began questioning her, which was all she wanted.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 1
12  But when he glanced at her and saw those sweet truthful eyes fastened questioningly on him, he repeated it with his whole heart.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 2
13  The only difficulty was that by being just and truthful and tender and unselfish, one missed most of the joys of life, and certainly many beaux.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Ashley was so honorable, so truthful, so kind and he saw so straightly, so clearly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  No, she did not want to sell but, goaded by the thought that Rhett had exposed her to Ashley in so truthful and so unflattering a light, she had made up her mind instantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
Example Sentence: (155 in 11 pages)
16  Art is a lie that tells the truth.
17  The article was headlined 'Tell us the truth'.
18  It was another attempt to distract attention from the truth.
19  The truth is cruel,but it can be loved,and it makes free those who have loved it.
20  Nothing is really beautiful but truth.
21  We managed to piece together the truth from several sketchy accounts.
22  When wine is in truth is out.
23  The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
24  The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
25  Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
26  Children and fools speak the truth.
27  Children and fools tell the truth.
28  To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation.
29  Nature is the glass reflecting truth.
30  Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.