Sentence examples for a false thing from inspiring English sources

"Again, I don't know that calling 911 for a false thing is a crime".

Reached at the bar, Michael E. Brady, Fanad's chief executive, would say only, "It's definitely a false thing".

His descriptions of "all those years" spent "doing a false thing at length" frequently allude to his relationship to other writers; his personal anxiety of influence, born partly of growing up in a working-class milieu with no writers around.

"A majority of the people who survived the concentration camps did so because they believed in a false thing.

If what we say and do will blunt or harm our purpose ... then we are saying and doing a false thing even if, in the abstract, it is true ... When, in heaven's name are we going to learn that working-class politics and the struggle for power are not a Sunday-school class where purity of godliness and the infallibility of the Bible must be held up without fear of consequences".

The only false thing about the confession was the confession itself.

That's two true things and one false thing.

It isn't just a matter of people believing something untrue; they really want to believe it and as psychoanalysts have known for a while, the false things we believe are often more important than the true ones.

A lot of false things were brought up and they were very hurtful, very painful, for me personally and there were attacks on me as well that I really didn't appreciate.

Giuliani conceded that Trump's habit of saying false things on a near-daily basis could create a problem for him.

And while Kate's belief in spirit-inhabited birds may do no harm, a President can do a lot of damage when the demonstrably false things he believes are used as the basis for national policy.