Explore True through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like honest or genuine. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
True in a sentence
Related words
True meaning
- Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
Synonyms of True
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Using True
- The main meaning on this page is: Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. | Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. | As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
- Useful related words include: honest, genuine, sincere, faithful.
- Possible Dutch translations are: echt, waar.
- In the example corpus, true often appears in combinations such as: is true, be true, true for.
Example sentences (20)
With hypothetical derivations, we can now write the elimination rule for disjunction: In words, if A ∨ B is true, and we can derive C true both from A true and from B true, then C is indeed true.
If we had a large testing network from the very beginning, we could accurately see the larger picture of true infection rates, true deaths, true symptoms, and true recovery.
In logic, one says "assuming A ∧ (B ∧ C) is true, we show that B is true"; in other words, the judgment "B true" depends on the assumed judgment "A ∧ (B ∧ C) true".
This is sometimes expressed as "everything that is true is provable", but it must be understood that "true" here means "made true by the set of axioms", and not, for example, "true in the intended interpretation".
I want to find true true love," he declared in a video titled Looking for true Moscow love posted to his channel, Bazooka Hands, yesterday (Tuesday, August 23).
That was true yesterday and it’s true today, and I guarantee you will be true tomorrow.
Surely this is not true and even if it is true for many, it cannot be true for all.
For example, if it's true that it's coming, and it's true that I'm inside, then it's true that "it's coming and I'm inside".
For Margolis, "true" means true; that is, the alethic use of "true" remains untouched.
However, that the liar sentence can be shown to be true if it is false and false if it is true has led some to conclude that it is "neither true nor false".
If is true, and if is true, then one may infer that is true.
Imagine this process repeated infinitely, so that truth is defined for The barn is big; then for "The barn is big is true"; then for "'The barn is big is true' is true", and so on.
Murray Burnett called it "true yesterday, true today, true tomorrow".
Of other world religions he writes: "All these religions are true for me as Canterbury Cathedral is a true thing and as a Swiss chalet is a true thing.
Points three and four in the fifth article read: True believers can fall from true faith and can fall into such sins as cannot be consistent with true and justifying faith; not only is it possible for this to happen, but it even happens frequently.
Scientific realists claim that science aims at truth and that one ought to regard scientific theories as true, approximately true, or likely true.
The purpose of Surat Shabd Yoga is to realize one's True Self as soul (Self-Realisation), True Essence (Spirit-Realisation) and True Divinity (God-Realisation) while living in the physical body.
Therefore, whenever p → q is true and p is true, q must also be true.
They are true because a material conditional is defined to be true when the antecedent is false (regardless of whether the conclusion is true).
This argument is valid, but this has no bearing on whether any of the statements in the argument are true ; for modus ponens to be a sound argument, the premises must be true for any true instances of the conclusion.
Common combinations with true
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is true 75×
- be true 35×
- true for 29×
- true and 24×
- the true 20×
- true that 18×
- true in 17×
- and true 16×
- true then 15×
- was true 15×