Sentence examples for contained some truth from inspiring English sources

He said this idea was a generality, but nevertheless contained some truth.

I only wish I had asked him about Mauer's joke at the banquet, because it might have contained some truth.

They said they were "aware of the 'whispers' " about their "ethical conduct," and that these whispers contained "some truth".

These accusations all contained some truth, though the selfsame accusers denied women the vote, bolstered racist patriarchy and enthroned mainstream Protestantism as something of a state religion.

"Darmstadt" became a perjorative term used to describe arid abstract music, glass bead games with notes and, like all cliches, it contained some truth.

It may have been that Scrushy went to such lengths to track down the Internet chatters because he feared any investigation by more legitimate-sounding sources would expose that their charges contained some truth, as one former HealthSouth employee, Kimberly Landry Kimberly Landry, said at the time.

Both views contain some truth.

As simplifications go, the following contain some truth.

But like all stereotypes, it may contain some truth.

Like so many crude generalisations, this one contains some truth.

Both of these caricatures probably contain some truth.