Example Sentences

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Of course, all of that is only half-true.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

It’s a form perhaps well suited to Kosinski’s half-true tale, and there’s no grim scene here that Marhoul isn’t eager to shoot handsomely.

From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2020

“At least I get to sit back and let her direct,” Daniels said, nodding to the episode’s director, Daina Reid, which was maybe half-true.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2020

And then it came half-true, with Nosrat getting the Netflix show.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2019

Horror pierced Mom’s face, the first true emotion to shatter her wall of pleasant, half-true smiles and utter, utter blankness.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller