Sentence examples for not precisely true from inspiring English sources

Well, that's not precisely true.

Historically speaking, the old saw that movies do well in hard times is not precisely true.

That is not precisely true, but Vagenas showed he liked pressure against Cameroon by scoring on a penalty kick.

But that is not precisely true: the difference these days is that it is virtually impossible to get away with it.

That is not precisely true, but on an unbearably humid summer dusk in New York, some expanded the realm of what might seem to be appropriate theater garb.

It is a stunning, almost unfathomable decline, and it suggests why Braddock has become a favorite media stand-in for Rust Belt devastation, even if what Fetterman says is not precisely true.

This isn't precisely true: Tom is divorced from his wife, Nathalie (Delphine Chuillot), for starters.

Because what I've discovered in the intervening years is that what Professor Newhall told me that day wasn't precisely true.

But the line from the satirist Tom Lehrer's 1965 song "Smut," written on the opening wall of the show, isn't precisely true: "When correctly viewed, everything is lewd".

The writer and monologist David Sedaris frequently tells wonderful personal yarns on the show that may not be precisely true in every detail, but this was not a story about a family car trip gone bad.

This model remains a useful, and much used, approximation, although economists mostly agree that it is not a precisely true description of all (or even most) individuals in all, or even most situations.