truthful - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • say: Or you can make a realistic record that takes all of those things and tries to say something truthful about them.

Modifies a noun

  • reporting: Science was built on the foundations of full and truthful reporting of observations and findings; not anymore.
  • witness: The Tribunal found her to be a truthful witness.
  • answer: My most truthful answer has to be, ' in every way ' .
  • explanation: All that is needed is for MPs to say: " Pause for a moment, let us have a proper, truthful explanation.
  • representation: But does ' true story ' really indicate ' truthful representation ' ?
  • interpretation: History is not something like a script from the past which contains its own meaning or ' truthful interpretation ' .

Used with adjective complement

  • stay: Stay truthful, but don't be afraid to say your worth.
  • mean: Truth is the same as amen, amen means truthful, fixed and unchanging.
  • remain: Since existentialism tries to remain truthful, the project of exploitation in any form must be wrong.

Infinitive complement

  • say: When I was growing-up it is truthful to say that for those of us who were born into abject poverty opportunities were virtually non-existent.

Modifying Another Word

  • entirely: The map was not entirely truthful ( the wardens have been busy!
  • completely: I'm not sure your daughter is being completely truthful with you!
  • totally: And my second, if I'm to be totally truthful, was ' Why can't they take him elsewhere?
  • absolutely: A moment where he sits on a bed and cries is absolutely truthful.
  • too: Perhaps I was being too truthful, but I don't mind.
  • always: Biology Sam wasn't always truthful about her interest in biology.

Preposition: in

  • speech: Those who have the most truthful dreams are those who are the most truthful in speech.
  • pronouncement: Inform and reassure frequently and regularly, but " be truthful in public pronouncements " , do not hide non- trivial mishaps.

Preposition: than

  • religion: I do defend the idea that science, at its best, is more truthful than religion.

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