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Example sentences for "truly"

Lexicographically close words:
truism; truisms; truites; truith; trulie; trumeau; trump; trumpe; trumped; trumpery
  1. Like myself, he greatly revered the old Ti Rimpoche, who taught him Buddhism in its correct form, and “truly impressed him as a living Buddha.

  2. I must state that I have never given the holy sacrament to a better prepared or more truly repentant Christian.

  3. In all their movements they seem to be actuated by one simultaneous feeling that is truly admirable.

  4. I often halted and turned my horse's head to look upon this picture, for such it truly was.

  5. But well wot I, my lady graunted me, Truly to be my woundes remedy; Her gentilness may not infected be With dobleness, thus trust I till I dy.

  6. Povert of kinred is behynde; richesse suffreth him to passe; truly he saith, he com never of Japhetes childre.

  7. For truly I wene, that al gladnesse, al joye, and al mirthe is beshet under locke, and the keye throwe in suche place that it may not be 100 founde.

  8. It is as we truly represent Him that we can expect our testimony to Him to find acceptance, but that testimony far transcends everything that our service enables men to measure.

  9. An atonement that does not regenerate, it truly holds, is not an atonement in which men can be asked to believe.

  10. To conceive the Atonement, that is, the fact that forgiveness is mediated to us through Christ, and specifically through His death, as clearly and truly as possible, it is necessary for us to realise the situation to which it is related.

  11. Truly you have learned it well, and carried the business to a high perfection.

  12. Truly we cannot enough admire, in those Abbot-Samson and William-Conqueror times, the arrangement they had made of their Governing Classes.

  13. Problem of the Present, pressing with a truly fearful intensity and imminence in these very years and days.

  14. It is the frightfulest enchantment; too truly a work of the Evil One.

  15. And truly this first practical form of the Sphinx-question, inarticulately and so audibly put there, is one of the most impressive ever asked in the world.

  16. Such, they said, was the best judgment they could form of the case;--and truly not a bad judgment.

  17. He dies indeed; but his work lives, very truly lives.

  18. Well; here truly is no answer to the Sphinx-question; not the answer a disconsolate public, inquiring at the College of Health, was in hopes of!

  19. Such words should, nevertheless, be uttered, when they dwell truly in the soul of any man.

  20. But truly it is beautiful to see the brutish empire of Mammon cracking everywhere; giving sure promise of dying, or of being changed.

  21. The road was incessantly up and down hill, as we afterwards found they are throughout Brittany; a "pays accidenté" it may be truly called.

  22. Who art thou coming thus, Loud clamouring at my gate, Thou truly puissant knight, With not one squire for state?

  23. Every time a man truly preaches he so portrays what men ought to be, must be, and can be if they will, that they know there is something here "that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven!

  24. There is a great deal of truly religious music, austere in tone, breathing restraint and reverence, quietly written.

  25. It is truly ominous to see the gradual extension of this naturalistic principle still going on in the state.

  26. If, as Lessing said, it is the end of education to make men to see things that are large as large and things that are small as small, it is even more truly the end of Christian preaching.

  27. He knows you can never express them, for truly to do that you would have to express and explain the entire world.

  28. Who that has entered truly into life does not perceive beneath all the glitter of its brilliance, the roar of its energy and achievement, the note of melancholy?

  29. And indeed no man of our sort--the saint and sinner sort--is ever long and truly humane unless the springs of his tenderness for men are found in his ever widening and deepening gratitude to God!

  30. He had really and truly taken me on a round.

  31. The power, moreover, which with the Indian resides in mere gesture, as a medium for disclosing and laying bare the thoughts of his mind, is truly remarkable.

  32. Memory is, undoubtedly, the Indian's strong point, and I can myself testify to exhibitions of it, truly phenomenal.

  33. By the year 731, as Gibbon truly says, the whole south of France, from the mouth of the Garonne to that of the Rhone, had assumed the manners and religion of Arabia.

  34. Literature in England began to be once more English and truly national in the hands of Chaucer and his contemporaries, but it was the literature of a nation cut off from its own past by three centuries of foreign rule.

  35. Milton is the most scholarly and the most truly classical of English poets.

  36. After all, these things are viewed in their proper light by the truly judicious and respectable.

  37. The most truly chaste, rich and elegant carpets, are those where the pattern is formed by one color only, but arranged in every variety of shade.

  38. This truly beautiful imitation, if well done, is so perfect that none save connoisseurs can discern, at sight, the difference.

  39. This is to act the character of a "dangler," a character truly dastardly and infamous.

  40. There is a truly healing power in soap, which is surprising when we learn to appreciate it, and which is quite distinct from mere cleanliness.

  41. It has been truly remarked, that he who follows his amusements instead of his business, will, in a short time, have no business to follow.

  42. Truly a noble thing for the great Cid Ruy Diaz,--to make war against a woman!

  43. He was too truly great to be envious of Bayard's fame, and nothing delighted him more than to hear the knight's praises.

  44. The zealous and splendid effort he made, the measure of success he attained, in battling against the darkness and ignorance of his time, entitle Charlemagne to a place among the truly great men of the world.

  45. But truly it was only the stoutest hearts and strongest bodies that could stand the misery to which the Crusaders were now reduced.

  46. As he strode down the aisle of Westminster in all the glittering and jeweled splendor of his coronation robes, Richard's appearance was truly royal.

  47. But time soon showed how truly the young Philip was stanch old Sir Henry's son.

  48. And though she was truly of favour most fair, Yet seeing she was but a poor beggar's heir, Of ancient housekeepers despis-ed was she, Whose sons came as suitors to pretty Bessee.

  49. Yes, said I, we truly are all of one nature, and one family; and we suffer a common fate!

  50. The progress was at the rate of one hundred and seventy miles in a minute, or three miles per second, or three seconds at each station; a rapidity truly wonderful!

  51. Joinville, after relating this, remarks, “And I believe truly that his prayers served us well in our need.

  52. Schiller, again, was a poet truly national and truly liberal; and although a man of aspirations rather than of actions, he has left a deeper impress on the kernel of the nation than either Wieland or Goethe.

  53. A still wilder tragedy lies hidden in the songs of the “Edda,” the most ancient fragments of truly Teutonic poetry.

  54. He will experience how truly the divine Plato spoke, when he said, “Seven years of silent inquiry were needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

  55. He has thoughts of his own, truly human, deeply religious, and thoroughly national; and there are expressions and comparisons in his poetry which had never been used before.

  56. It is high time, indeed, that something should be done; and nothing will avail but to place every truly historical monument under national protection.

  57. The monastery of Fulda, under Hrabanus Maurus, the pupil of Alcuin, became the seminary of a truly national clergy.

  58. With hearty greetings of truest attachment and love to your mother, truly yours.

  59. Here, too, a study of the language gives some useful hints as to the proper method of disentangling the truly ancient from the more modern elements.

  60. But yet how strong is the feeling of immediate relation to God and nature, how truly human, and how closely related to our own!

  61. I have purchased him with a price," he said to himself, "but I will deal truly with the jarl.

  62. He is truly a leader of men," growled the Jew through his thick beard, "but I would once more smite these Philistines of Rome.

  63. I tell you truly that if ye are now taken prisoners ye would but climb yonder Hill of Skulls.

  64. Truly it was not far to go and come, stepped they never so slowly, and they soon brought back word that her door was open, but Hilda they did not find, nor did any know whither she had gone.

  65. But I have this to ask of thee, that thou wilt be my witness of this crucifixion, that I may truly know of whatever shall there occur.

  66. Truly sped the arrow, and the tall old Corinthian traitor was smitten through the face, so that he spoke no more.

  67. Truly we were overcrowded," said Ulric, standing upon the fore deck of The Sword.

  68. Finally, no people act more foolishly than those who have been truly possessed with Christian piety.

  69. The oath of a justice was: "Well and truly ye shall serve the King and his people.

  70. These attorneys shall be sworn to serve well and truly in their offices.

  71. They truly have strayed and are in error.

  72. Thy Lord truly preserveth whom He willeth, be he in the midst of the seas, or in the maw of the serpent, or beneath the sword of the oppressor.

  73. We, too, have revealed the Cause of God in His cities and raised aloft His remembrance amidst them that truly believe in Him.

  74. Thus doth the Pen admonish thee as bidden by the Eternal King, that thou mayest be apprised of what came to pass aforetime and be reckoned in this day among them that truly believe.

  75. Thou art truly the Lord of the worlds and of those who show mercy the Most Merciful.

  76. Wherefore it becometh evident that one may well be manifested in the world of creation who is truly of God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

  77. No one of them that truly believe and uphold the unity of God can bear the burden of their recital.

  78. We have caused the oceans of inner meaning and explanation to surge from Thy heart in remembrance of Thy Lord, the God of mercy, that Thou mayest render thanks and praise unto Him and be of those who are truly thankful.

  79. If this be My transgression, then I am truly the first of the transgressors.

  80. They who disregard and neglect the divines and learned that live amongst them—these have truly changed the favour with which God hath favoured them.

  81. Be thou of them that have truly repented and returned to God, the God Who hath created thee, Who hath nourished thee, and made thee a minister among them that profess thy faith.

  82. The author of the Etudes wishes to spare us such a humiliation, by telling us of the enemy as he is; and in this sense his work is truly patriotic, and cannot be unacceptable to any.

  83. How he redeemed his pledge to do all that he, in honor, could do, his efforts in the settlement of the Oregon question truly show.

  84. Domestic policy or parental affection supply the greater part of them; and the want of protectors and step-mothers felt by families of all sizes is truly marvellous, considering the usual consequences of their instalment.

  85. The mountains truly have a glorious roughness; I do not hear the pyramids are smooth; The ocean grandly foams into abruptness; Does God peal thunder down a well-oiled groove?

  86. But the personal appearance and bearing of many Germans, who are in themselves truly worthy of respect, often induce the well-educated and refined American to place in the back ground their otherwise estimable qualities.

  87. No painting or sculpture could remind me so truly of him as does my faithful memory.

  88. The kind and gentle old man seemed truly astonished that any one who had come so far, and seen so much, should care for seeing him, and rewarded my enthusiasm with a hearty grasp of the hand that had wielded so admired a pen.

  89. The engraving of the mother and child illustrating the ballad of Schlof Kindlein is truly beautiful, conceived in a spirit of naive fantasie, peculiarly applicable to the odd yet childlike song.

  90. It is not possible for me to imagine that any of my own ideas are alike or unlike that are not truly so.

  91. The dark meat and game flavor proclaim his birthright of lordly freedom as truly after he is slain and cooked, as did his lithe grace of figure, lofty carriage, and bright eye while he trod his native wilds.

  92. Show your servant that you respect yourself and her too truly to forget what is due to both.

  93. Ah, there is Dicky Browne," says she, glancing from where she is now standing at the door of the conservatory to where Mr. Browne may be seen leaning against a curtain with his lips curved in a truly benevolent smile.

  94. Truly I do seem to be sitting in judgment on her and her family.

  95. Truly she--Joyce--has not been successful in her quest.

  96. This incontrovertible fact Mrs. Connolly gives forth with a truly noble air of resignation.

  97. What strange freaks moonbeams play," says he, with a truly delightful air of saying nothing in particular.

  98. Truly your professions of love were light as thistledown.

  99. That he should refuse to accept an advance from her seems truly beyond belief.

  100. Me mother's daughter must be a truly enthralling person.


  101. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "truly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolutely; actually; alright; assuredly; bottom; certainly; clearly; completely; decidedly; definitely; distinctly; doubtless; doubtlessly; easily; effect; even; exactly; fact; fine; forsooth; genuinely; good; historically; honestly; indeed; indubitably; literally; manifestly; naturally; nay; noticeably; obviously; oui; patently; perfectly; positively; precisely; quite; rather; really; right; seriously; substantially; sure; surely; true; truly; truth; undeniably; undoubtedly; verily; very; visibly; well; yea; yes


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    truly believe; truly glad; truly happy; truly national; truly said; truly sorry