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

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

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2019

The modern N.B.A. era began in the 1980s with two made-to-order if only half-true narratives.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2016

I wouldn’t let my sister carry half-true histories back and forth between Miss Trotter and her sister.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia