ring true

Idioms and Phrases

see under ring false .

Example Sentences

While a lot of her comments ring true, ultimately, we just need to get over the word “fat.”

From The Daily Beast

Critics are thus hitting alarms on the Obama security policy that ring true in domestic politics.

From The Daily Beast

That overpowering, but ultimately ill-placed, nostalgia seems to also ring true for executive producer Rick Rubin.

From The Daily Beast

As you go through these photographs, those words echo in your head because they still ring true.

From The Daily Beast

For these older characters, though, some constants still ring true.

From The Daily Beast

An unusual story in which the author has pictured real men, who ring true in the time of danger.

From Project Gutenberg

A performance that has self as its central motive can never ring true or achieve any lasting success.

From Project Gutenberg

She left the room just now,' he returned, with a sleepy inflection; but to Mildred's delicate perception it did not ring true.

From Project Gutenberg

There was something assumed, something that did not ring true about his apparent heartiness.

From Project Gutenberg

Well, I guess onions wouldnt do that to a fellow, he said with a confidence that didnt quite ring true.

From Project Gutenberg