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How to use the word untrue in a Sentence?

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...it's often mistaken to accept something as true merely because it's obvious. The truth is only arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue.

Sherlock Holmes

added by milly_b
1 year ago

The parade helps to normalize slavery as something harmless and inconsequential in the collective imagination, which is completely untrue.

Elvira Swartch Lorenzo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It doesn’t matter what you think you’re trying to represent. It doesn’t matter that you think that’s how you make children happy. It doesn’t matter if it’s a tradition. If you paint yourself a color that is not yours, it is racist, the parade helps to normalize slavery as something harmless and inconsequential in the collective imagination, which is completely untrue.

Elvira Swartch Lorenzo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry—or laugh.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

For Black people, a lot of our history is oral, it doesn't mean that it's untrue, it just means it wasn't written anywhere or inscribed anywhere.

Johnette Weaver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Cachu case is one of way too many that shows the nation that George Gascon’s policies, directives and so-called reforms are a failure, his ‘data and science’ was flawed and completely untrue and his 18-month social experiment has been an abysmal failure.

Jonathan Hatami

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Obviously, quite a bit of the money went to the Trump Hotel. It went to non-profits associated with people who work for the President. And obviously, this was not the intent that a lot of the fundraising emails were being sent. So clearly, they were misled at best. And in some instances, they were just patently untrue.

Bennie Thompson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When his political future is at risk, he becomes erratic, unhinged, coercive, and threatening, he accuses me of things that are untrue and generates conspiracy theories about me collaborating with his' enemies,' when I have done no such thing.

Sheena Greitens

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They are presenting him as a political figure, and that is so untrue, nowhere in that bio does it say he’s a two-time cop killer. Nowhere in there does it say anything about him joining the Black Liberation Army.

Diane Piagentini

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Romney, please provide evidence that what I said is untrue and treasonous. If you cannot, you should do the honorable thing: apologize and resign from the Senate.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That statement that Alex Bastian made is completely untrue, and it is a slap in the face to the victim in this case.

Jon Hatami

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

On the assertions made by U.S. officials that China is expanding dramatically its nuclear capabilities, first, let me say that this is untrue.

Fu Cong

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Did the prosecutors do some things that I really don’t approve of? Yes. Did it rise to the level of prosecutorial misconduct from a legal standpoint? I don’t think it necessarily did. Them putting on evidence that they know was untrue? Totally inappropriate. But would that have been able to get Kyle a new trial if he was found guilty? I don’t think so.

Mark Richards

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They need better people. They need people that are respected because it's not that CNN is beyond repair, look, I know Jeff Zucker … Jeff Zucker's Jeff Zucker … Jeff Zucker's Jeff Zucker. It's just there, it's like everything else, these people are managing at scale. And but you can't allow people to say things that are absolutely untrue when you have a f --- ing news organization.

Sanjay Gupta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These so-called outsider groups are sending out scurrilous, untrue, highly defamatory attacks on a school board member who is running for reelection, and we've certainly never seen anything like that.

Charlie Wilson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That allegation is completely untrue. A process server lawfully served the papers on Mo Brooks' wife, as the federal rules allow.

Philip Andonian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I firmly believe that all survivors of harassment have the right to come forward. I will reserve further comment until this person has had the opportunity to share their story, for now, let me say without equivocation: these allegations are untrue and do not reflect my interactions with anyone, including any woman or member of my staff.

Scott Stringer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Many people look at people with disabilities like they are not able to do much, but Michael showed everyone just how untrue that is.

Angie Martinez

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

As the CMO has said, the main barrier to vaccine delivery will be availability of the vaccine, and it is completely untrue that staffing constraints are currently standing in the way of vaccine rollout, with the NHS ready to deliver vaccine as supply becomes available, the NHS is off to a strong start vaccinating one million people and now beginning the rapid rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca, which will enable us to vaccinate millions more people with the support of tens of thousands of vaccinators.

An NHS spokeswoman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

======== #6. Avoid alcohol for it is the mother of all evils ======== #7. Do not become angry and Paradise will be yours ======== #8. Beware of suspicion; suspicion is the most untrue speech ======== #9. If one of you loves his brother for the sake of Allah, let him tell him, for it does good and makes the love last ======== #10. Blessings are with your elders

Prophet Muhammad

added by Ih761989
3 years ago

They're looking at information that could mislead voters about when or where the poll is taking place, or specific charges that can be proven untrue. But I think what we've seen with Trump's strategy is President Trump's calling into question the entire legitimacy of the process.

Deborah Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Late to the game with an untrue story. I guess the motivation is that you get a lot of play on national news from people who don't care about telling the true story or the consequences.

Benjamin Eagles

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is understandable that many Americans are fearful and seeking security in the time of the Covid pandemic, however, we know that the rhetoric put forth by the NRA and the gun industry, that the purchase of a gun is a risk-free means to secure safety, is untrue and leads to tragic results every single day.

Kris Brown

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Joe Biden has dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence against women. He authored and fought for the passage and reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act. He firmly believes that women have a right to be heard -- and heard respectfully, such claims should also be diligently reviewed by an independent press. What is clear about this claim : it is untrue. This absolutely did not happen.

Kate Bedingfield

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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