Sentence examples for a half truth from inspiring English sources

This, again, is a half truth.

This is a half truth but an important one.

This is now a half truth — the last half.

The process became awkward, for both me and my interrogators – I lied, I told a half truth, I lied again and hoped no two people would compare notes.

For instance, they were extremely cautious about King's discourse on communism, and they suggested changes, such as using the phrase "social cooperation" instead of "collectivism," and calling Marxism "a partial truth" instead of "a half truth" (Papers 4 405).

What happens when a buzzword like big data is uncovered as a half truth?

Many newspapers are now openly questioning the "construction bonanza"—a half-truth that was the previous government's endlessly repeated boast.

This is only a half-truth.

At best, this was a half-truth.

"Cutting government spending" is a half-truth.

But this was a half-truth.