How to use "truth" in a sentence

Finally, I must accept the truth: I am going to die.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people.

Our Shastras say and I say so with the greatest deference to all the greatest religious preceptors of India but without fear of contradiction, that our Shastras teach us that there shall be no cooperation between injustice and justice, between an unjust man and a justice- loving man, between truth and untruth

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly

'That's not the truth,' I told him

'The truth is that the lady died.'

'I'll tell you the truth.'

'You'll never tell the truth

'Monseigneur,' said the sergeant, 'do I understand that this man was telling the truth? We found this silver in his bag, and

'And he told you,' the bishop finished the sentence for him, 'that an old priest had given it to him? Yes, he was telling the truth.'

'I used to work in Paris, but my husband died and I lost my job.' She could not tell Mme Thenardier the truth, which was that she had been made pregnant by a young man who had then abandoned her

He knew - although he was not happy to admit this - that he would have to go to Arras and tell the truth

But what choice did he have? The truth was more important than anything else.

When he had persuaded the court of the truth of his confession, he was faced with a shocked but respectful silence.

For many years, Marius believed this, but when he was seventeen years old, he learnt the truth

Forgive me for talking like this, I don't know what I'm saying - perhaps I'm annoying you? But the truth is, I can't live without you.'

He was proud of having helped to bring her happiness with Marius, but another thing troubled his soul: the fact that nobody, not even Cosette, knew the truth about him

He knew that if he told Cosette and Marius the truth, he would spoil everybody's happiness and he would lose their love and respect

I tried to persuade myself that it would be better not to admit the truth about my past, but it was no use

'She'll be heart-broken if she hears the truth about me

'I've spent a long time discovering the truth about Jean Valjean.'

If you had known the truth, you would have felt obliged to be good to me, a worthless criminal

Yeah, you need to remember that the truth is important to me

"The truth, Jimmy." And Hank throws the end of the cigar into the pool in front of him

"The truth, Jimmy

I want the truth

Tell me, tell me the truth."

"I guess he was telling the truth, then."

someone is finally discovering the truth."

They will soon discover he's telling the truth - that as far as he knows, we did receive a letter

The truth is he's lonely by himself at Manderley

She believes in telling the truth

I felt she had known the truth all the time.

'I found out the truth five days after we were married

But I got the truth from him in the end

But if she learnt the truth about Rebecca's death, she would become Maxim's enemy too

I had a sudden feeling that Frank knew the truth.

I wondered what the papers would say if they knew the truth

That's why I've come here to find out the truth

'Crawley knows the truth, I'm sure

Somehow I felt sure that the truth was in that diary.

I was sure that this was the truth

"I want to know the truth," she said

'Do you think Colonel Julyan knows the truth about Rebecca's death?' I asked Maxim as we were drinking our coffee.

Though she always resisted the grim truth, it gradually exerted itself every time, and she was repeatedly brought down hard, forced to accept that the dream was not a premonition

An angry refusal to accept the awful truth

She believed in death and taxes, in the inevitability of slot-machine jackpots, in all-you-can-eat casino buffets for $5.95 per person, in the Lord God Almighty, in the truth of alien abductions and Big Foot, but she didn't believe in ghosts.

He was telling the truth.

Her inability to accept the truth was a lot worse than yours

"We gotta be sure you tell us the truth."

"The entire truth," said Bob.

A silencer-equipped pistol, lock-release gun, truth serums - their apparatus indicated that these guys were part of a sophisticated outfit with substantial resources.

The truth of it isn't anything like the version everyone's been told

"The truth is a lot worse," Elliot said

Besides, if we're face-to-face with him, we'll have a better idea of whether or not he's telling the truth

is finding out the truth about Danny's death

The truth is going to be something really terrible."

If we know the truth, we can use it to save ourselves

Those might not be the precise circumstances, but they're pretty damn close to the truth."

She was no longer afraid of facing the awful truth that might be waiting in Reno

The longer he thought about it, the less Kennebeck was able to believe that the Evans woman knew the truth about her son

On the one hand, she behaved as if she did not know the truth

If they were killed, the truth would die with them, and the cover-up would continue

Apparently afraid that she would voice her thoughts and alert Dombey to the incredible truth of the situation, Elliot consulted his wristwatch and said, "We ought to get out of here."

But the truth is that I am fighting down the feeling that a stranger has broken into the house and is in my bedroom

And then tell Mrs Protheroe that Mr Redding is innocent - well, then they might both tell you the truth.'

'When you did not tell me the truth about your clock.'

'You are laughing at me,' said Miss Marple, 'but that is a very good way of finding the truth

So, why don't you tell us the truth?'

What I want now is the truth.' She nodded

'Well, as a doctor, if you somehow discovered the truth - I wondered what you would do, that's all.'

I want the truth-' He banged his hand on a table.

But remember we are going to find out the truth.'

I'm going to find out the truth, and that's why I asked Miss Cram to come here

'Then it looks,' said Lettice, 'as though she didn't speak the truth?'

'And now I know that you are not speaking the truth, Lettice

You must understand that I heard this from someone who knows the truth.'

In St Mary Mead, a person who knows the truth is always someone else's servant

'Don't you think,' I said, 'that it might be better if Hawes didn't recover? We know the truth now and...'

'Of course! That's what he wants you to think! That you know the truth - and that it's best for everyone as it is

If he gets better, he will tell you the truth.'

'The truth?'

But no one suspected the truth, that the Martians had fired missiles, which were now rushing towards us at a speed of many kilometres a second across the great emptiness of space.

Suddenly, the truth came to me.

'"I know you are not telling me the truth

I am going to enter the cottage and discover the truth!"

'When I saw my wife again I told her that there could be no peace between us until she told me the truth

We never discovered the truth about the swans

We didn't have the courage to tell him the truth: we were running away from the rain!

'Anyway, you won't believe me if I tell you the truth.'

'You'll stay there until you tell the truth!' he cried

Then I can use the secret to force Sir Percival to tell the truth about Laura.'

The truth was that Percival's father had never married Percival's mother

Sir F told Sir P the truth when he was dying

'I want a full confession, written and signed, of your conspiracy with Sir Percival Glyde against Laura Fairlie,' I said, 'and I want proof of your story so that everyone knows the truth at last.'

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies." People have called her "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World".

I am here to learn the truth

Tell the Governor the truth about the Pulido family."

Zorro puts his pistol to Captain Ramon's head and says, "Tell the Governor the truth or I shoot!"

"Tell the truth, you liar,'' says Zorro.