Example Sentences

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The story Carroll told so fervently was almost certainly half-true, half-false.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2018

One detective revealed the shocking and half-false information to the occupants of Surratt’s boardinghouse: “John Wilkes Booth has shot the president, and John Surratt has assassinated the secretary of state.”

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

He quoted all those old, half-true, half-false adages about the lawlessness of necessity and so on.

From The Mystery of Metropolisville by Eggleston, Edward