Example Sentences

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No one should be held hostage to other people’s decisions or half-truths.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026

In the letter addressed to the Health Secretary Jeremy Miles, The British Dental Association Cymru Wales accused the Welsh government of pedalling "half-truths" about their messaging and statistics.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025

Initial sessions tend to be colored by weeping, hesitancy and half-truths as the clinician and client get a feel for each other.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2024

Technically, I’m sure a product expert could say that some of the product did penetrate into the top layer of wood fibers, but I feel half-truths are whole lies.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2023

Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliches, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole