Sentence examples for if not truly from inspiring English sources

Jake's action in forwarding the video leads to consequences that are, if not truly tragic, immensely sad.

The current Queen, on the job for going on sixty years, is respected, if not truly loved.

His bed was bungeed together to keep its linens and appearance inspection ready, if not truly hospital corners standard.

Between anarchy and authority falls argument, and the arguments, even the seemingly remote ones, are always where the cool (if not truly, Plutonianly cold) stuff can be found.

Taïa, like many Muslims in France, had been offended by the implication that after Charlie Hebdo it was incumbent on him to prove that he was "a good Muslim" — an unthreatening, if not truly equal, member of French society.

Mexico struck repeatedly from distance to worry if not truly extend Júlio César but the Brazil goalkeeper was called upon in injury time to preserve his team's point with a stop from the substitute Raúl Jiménez.

So assume for now an honestly run psychic hot line -- one that, if perhaps not truly psychic, is at least not thieving.

"We do not want to reorder the boundaries of our rights for the convenience of law enforcement officials, if it's not truly necessary, if it means we lose everything that we're trying to defend".

And if you're not truly chic, then you might as well die – at least if you're in fashion.

But Facebook may not stay at a $100 billion valuation forever if it is not truly worth that amount.

(And if it's not "truly" addictive but only habit forming, so much the better; it'll be that much easier to get people to cut back).