true - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • story: Everyone loves a true story, the stranger the better.
  • believer: Ipswich chairman David Sheepshanks is a true believer in the power of positive thought.
  • nature: He added: " Whatever the true nature of the under-drawing, it had yet to be made public.
  • meaning: But a most unlikely person will show Rose the true meaning of family - and give her the courage to follow her dream.
  • love: Vengeance or the path of true love - which will Lydia choose?
  • identity: Few MUD users know the true identities of their fellow citizens.

Modifying Another Word

  • especially: Of the solihull claims data especially true you can't how does he.
  • particularly: This is particularly true for weddings on a Saturday.
  • certainly: It is certainly true to say that to project the world in which we look round onto a flat plane is to distort it.
  • equally: However, equally true, and I believe what distinguishes us as Unitarians, is how we believe.

Infinitive complement

  • say: It is true to say however that the South West is the most affected area.

Used with adjective complement

  • come: Then to get second in the final is just a dream come true, " said a rather pleased Collier.
  • remain: Let a " bank " audit a " company " , his about comments remain true!
  • ring: The characters ' motivations and reactions, tho, didn't quite ring true for me.
  • stay: The game itself stays true to the film's storyline.
  • return: A second form of this method takes a URL and will return true if the package is sealed with respect to the specified URL.
  • hold: The same question holds true for the Divine name Redeemer.

Preposition: in

  • sense: That's true in the sense that there are many others similar to it.

Preposition: for

  • quantity: The principle is true for all quantities of candidate numerals.

Preposition: if

  • object: Returns true if the specified object is also a Map and the two Map objects represent the same mappings.

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