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Example sentences for "true"

Lexicographically close words:
trudge; trudged; trudgeon; trudges; trudging; trued; truei; truelie; truely; trueness
  1. These true representatives of the citizens constitute the Court of Common Council, under the style and title of "Court of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commoners of the City of London in Common Council assembled.

  2. It is true the latter have not been altogether forgotten, and will not be altogether passed over.

  3. Utter first, for she deserves it, many a golden wish and vow; Then deliver this true message, humbly, as I speak it now.

  4. If after death, we haply may retain More of true being than a name and shade, Tibullus now the bright Elysian plain Doth enter, and hears stir of welcome made.

  5. Thy heart will wear no steel Nor be stone-cold that rueful day: Thy faithful grief may all true lovers feel Nor tearless turn away!

  6. But lovers true these tales receive: Rather a thousand such they hold, Than loveless gods believe.

  7. Let not the dreams come true Which last night's cruel slumber bade believe!

  8. Each cold embrace Brought my true love to mind, and colder grew.

  9. It is but folly, then, to fume and fret, If one light lass that old deception wrought; O that I too might evermore forget To speak my heart's true thought!

  10. My fondest dream Is, poor but free, with my true wife to live.

  11. Little sister," he said in soft Italian, "my heart is sore, for it is true that the Ten have placed the death seal upon me.

  12. It is the regret of my life," said the old pedagogue, "that while the fellow was in school I did not sooner learn his true character.

  13. Perhaps it is not quite true to say it gave them all such a feeling, for there was an expression of disappointment on the face of the boy from Texas, a slight cloud of gloom that nothing seemed to dispel.

  14. Some of the information was new, and all of it was true and valuable.

  15. I should be very obliged to you to let me know the reasons why he has been arrested and his true situation towards the American government.

  16. Our plans always were to appear to be blockade-runners, so we never carried on our persons any evidence of our true character.

  17. He then told me he was so glad to know my true character.

  18. They treated me very nicely, prepared a good meal for me with true Virginia hospitality; finally I departed.

  19. The emptying of them proved a true infliction.

  20. It is true that every builder has been required before constructing his private drains and connecting them with the public sewers, to send in a plan of his proposed drainage for the sanction of the Surveyor.

  21. This was specially true of this great metropolis with its millions of people, its vast extent, its great diversities.

  22. The whole class of zymotic diseases--diseases which constitute the true gauge of the healthiness or unhealthiness of a community--received a rapid and immense development.

  23. In 1861 a medical department of the Privy Council was formed which has in many ways been of immense service to the cause of public health, and which, as time went on, developed towards a true Ministry of Public Health.

  24. Several of the Medical Officers of Health promptly discerned how true it was, and in their earlier reports dwelt upon it, pointing out the effects, and emphasising their great importance.

  25. Still, it is equally true that these observations do not apply to the whole population.

  26. Is it true that in England |¿Es verdad que en the sun is |Inglaterra no se invisible during a |ve el sol durante quarter of the |la cuarta parte year?

  27. Yet how many times the true fault can be traced to the message itself.

  28. It was equally true that clippings of competitive advertising and advertising in general, selected at random, were strangely clean-cut.

  29. But the Captain, after a few eights on the ice, intimated that for the rest no sport was true sport save the sport of ski-running.

  30. Useless to remind himself that the Countess was notorious for her affability and also for her efforts to encourage the true welfare of the Five Towns.

  31. He was recognised by all the true votaries of the game.

  32. On the mere fact that he paid an annual subscription to the golf club, certain parties built up the legend that he was a true sportsman, with the true interests of sport in his soul.

  33. And each one secretly thought how ridiculous was such behaviour, and how it failed to reach the standard of true worldliness.

  34. Could it be true that she, his superior in experience and in splendour of person, had kissed him?

  35. It is true that we had always been prepared for winter, wherever we had lived; but this was a different case.

  36. However, as Euphemia said, it was better to take a little trouble than to have the house full of burglars, which was true enough.

  37. That was no falsehood," said Pomona; "it was true as truth.

  38. We were in doubt whether or not to tell our friends the true history of the camp.

  39. No doubt this is in a measure true of all the greatest artists, but it is seldom obvious.

  40. Even at this time he had religious doubts; it is interesting in view of his later work that one cause of his perplexities was the difficulty of ascertaining the true reading of certain passages in the Greek New Testament.

  41. In ringing, or in true chiming, the bell is in motion when struck.

  42. The plural number is almost always denoted by the addition of some word meaning "many" or "collection" to the singular, although we sometimes find a true plural used in the case of nouns denoting human beings.

  43. And it is just in the adoption of the luxurious Mozartesque rondo form as the crown of this work that Beethoven shows his true independence.

  44. And as they speak of war, so they speak of everything else; and this is true not only of the common people, but of the upper classes as well.

  45. And how true are the paintings of Ribera!

  46. But true and great art--ah, it is not that!

  47. It is the true national festival of Spain, the only day in the year when party strife sleeps and all hearts are united in a common sentiment.

  48. But true it is that she talked intelligently on subjects far removed from the ordinary course of feminine studies, and not in the evasive and superficial manner of those who know only the names and titles.

  49. The shopkeeper, who did not believe that true liberty consisted in being beaten over the horns, protested, the other replied, and the discussion lasted some time.

  50. He is in the wrong," replied Bazmant, "to trust wholly in his army: the true support of Kings is the favour of Heaven.

  51. If you are a true Mussulman, I conjure you by the name of the great Prophet to reveal to me the true cause of the grief which afflicts you.

  52. Is it not true that you have given it me?

  53. Then she stopped and called to him, "Come here, my true playfellow, come to me.

  54. For I am well assured that no enchantment shall prevail against me while I journey toward Mecca, for such is the faith of all true believers: though they may oppress and fatigue me, yet in the end shall I triumph.

  55. Misnar, "more precious are your counsels to me than the mines of Raalconda: wisdom is the true support of honour, and the Sultan is established by the counsel of his sages.

  56. How has she become my shame after having been my true honour, and a subject of reproach to the world after having been its admiration!

  57. She had been living among strangers, and the sight and touch of her true old friend was reassuring.

  58. In the meantime be true to me; and not one word, if you please, of me or my concerns to anybody.

  59. Jacques, you have the character of being always true to your chief.

  60. The sight which should have made me even more powerless to resist, awoke me to a true sense of the life which I had been living for some hours, and by God's grace I was strong enough to fly.

  61. Are we not united by the true bond of love?

  62. But how true are Quintilian's words, that children often carry to school faults from home!

  63. This faithful and dutiful devotion arose from feeling that the life and true interests of the royal house were one with the people.

  64. Experienced Generals from the school of the great King, men of high birth, loyal and true to their King, grown old in honours.

  65. It is true that all the faults of a privileged order were strikingly perceptible in them.

  66. It is true this was cancelled by Frederic William I.

  67. He was right, and yet it was not till I was thirty-five, that I saw it in its true light.

  68. These pictures began with a description of peasant life at an earlier period, it concludes with a true village story of the latest bygone times.

  69. The countryman still continued true to his church; there was much praying and psalm-singing in the huts of the poor, frequently a good deal of pious enthusiasm; there were still revivalists and prophets among the country people.

  70. But the East Prussians were not shaken in their veneration for him: they clung with true love to their ungracious master, and his best and most intellectual panegyrist was Emmanuel Kant.

  71. It is true that there was bitter sorrow among the people over the downfall of Prussia, and deep hatred against the Emperor of the French.

  72. It is true that his army was superior in number to the Imperial, and still more in warlike capacity; and, according to the representations of the time, the mass of the people was not so suitable as now to recruit the army.

  73. In less than three months I have lost my two most faithful friends--people with whom I have daily lived, agreeable companions, estimable men, and true friends.

  74. We got to do the best we can, and keep true to the Code and the Brotherhood .

  75. I was known by that name once," he said, "but my true name is Gwanne.

  76. Indeed, I believe the tales of the Greymen are true and that an evil spirit has returned to haunt me.

  77. It showed up this whole grubby farce in its true colors.

  78. He was a true artist in every sense of the word, an eloquent speaker, and one of the most sincere, thoughtful, and lovingly-earnest men that Birmingham has ever been blessed with.

  79. Mr. Winfield was a true man, Conservative in politics, but most, truly liberal in all matters connected with his work-people and their families.

  80. Had you been true to yourself, true to your friends, true to your instructors, true to the obligation which God or Nature fixes upon every intelligent Soul, this would have been the day of your triumph and joy.

  81. And God forbid that any true prophet should predict the same of the school that has succeeded them!

  82. Venetian gold from this true cross, by leaving it in pawn with the Republic of Venice.

  83. The verses are good, full of fervour, spirit and true poetical feeling, and the manner in which they were spoken by M.

  84. This phrase, however, was not only cavilled at, but in true French style was laughed to death by the rest of the party.

  85. After all that can be said against his taste, Châteaubriand is a great man, and his name will live among the literati of France; but God forbid that any true prophet should predict the same of his imitators!

  86. True for Uncle Zack that gentry from the old country warn't never born to be handlin' axes an' frows.

  87. I suppose a specimen of the true "salmo salar" has never been caught in these waters since you blocked up the passage with your villainous dam, sir?

  88. All this had Zack sung unflinchingly, as though one syllable of it were true for him!

  89. Hence it is plain that He assumed a true body.

  90. But it is necessary for salvation that men be united together in the name of the one true religion.

  91. Christ's true body is in this sacrament, and since it does not begin to be there by local motion, nor is it contained therein as in a place, as is evident from what was stated above (A.

  92. It is impossible to keep men together in one religious denomination, whether true or false, except they be united by means of visible signs or sacraments.

  93. The intellect was not, as some untruthfully say, united to the true God, and henceforth called Christ, before the Incarnation which was of the Virgin.

  94. Hence outside the Church there can be no spiritual sacrifice that is a true sacrifice with the truth of its fruit, although it be a true sacrifice with the truth of the sacrament; thus it was stated above (Q.

  95. Whether the Son of God Ought to Have Assumed a True Body?

  96. Christ increased in wisdom and grace even as in age, since in the course of time He did more perfect works, to prove Himself true man, both in the things of God, and in the things of man.

  97. Dei x): "A true sacrifice is every good work done in order that we may cling to God in holy fellowship, yet referred to that consummation of happiness wherein we can be truly blessed.

  98. Therefore it seems that Christ did not possess a true body after His Resurrection.

  99. Therefore with equal reason man is said to be deified by being made God; and thus it is true that "Man was made God.

  100. Further, Christ's body always retains the true nature of a body, nor is it ever changed into a spirit.

  101. But this would not be true unless virtues were recovered in equal measure.

  102. Prince Charmant, who had clear intellect and penetration, divined the true motive of her refusal and admired Rosette still more for her delicacy.

  103. As she uttered these words, she heard a soft voice saying: "True repentance can atone for the worst of crimes.

  104. Passerose, after having wept and sobbed some time with the Queen Aimee, for that was her true name, now entreated her mistress to be seated at the table.

  105. She took her pencil and brushes and drew and painted with a facility which denoted a true talent.

  106. She advanced towards Ourson (who shall hereafter be known by his true name of Prince Marvellous) with a slow step.

  107. You know, Blondine, that a true repentance will obtain pardon for many crimes.

  108. A true repentance will obtain pardon for all faults," said a kind voice.

  109. To his everlasting credit be it recorded that he remained true to the country to which he had dedicated his life and his talents.

  110. You have been leal and true to me indeed, and many a black hour have you tided me over since this war' began.

  111. And that was the last I saw of this noble man, the true friend of America, who devoted his glorious talents and his life to fighting the corruption that was rotting the greatness of England.

  112. There the Carvel speaks," he cried, "and the true son of our generous province.

  113. It must be true as my life after, the consequence of it.

  114. I knew then that you had been true to me, despite what I had heard.

  115. There was much more, and at the end of it all the doctor told the man that the good God would forgive him if he should ask in true faith and repentance, but that the people, being human, could not.

  116. It was imperative that her true position should soon be determined.

  117. Then she sighted Dane's Rock, which bore due west, true enough.

  118. Nor are these true stories designed to reflect upon the regular practitioners of Newfoundland; nor should they create a false impression concerning them.

  119. Now, what can have happened to occasion such a curious perversion of our LORD'S true utterance, and to cause Him to ask an unmeaning question about the future, when He was clearly announcing a fact, founded on the history of the past?

  120. Verily, it is 'happening unto them according to the true proverb'--which S.

  121. We are so distressed, because the true sufferers after all by this ill-advised proceeding, are the 90 millions of English-speaking Christian folk scattered over the surface of the globe.

  122. GOD was manifested in the flesh" Shown To Be The True Reading Of 1 Timothy III.


  123. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "true" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    true account; true also; true and; true beauty; true church; true copy; true cross; true enough; true friend; true genius; true gentleman; true greatness; true humility; true idea; true knight; true knowledge; true marriage; true morality; true nobility; true prophet; true science; true sense; true soldier; true system; true theory; true virtue