Sentence examples for not technically true from inspiring English sources

That's not technically true.

"It's a beautiful Monday morning!" he added, which was not technically true.

"I've got all my sisters with me," they sing, even though this is not technically true.

It's not technically true that Anne Glover, the chief scientific officer to the European Union, has been sacked for her support of GM crops.

(Though the film's opening title card says the men had never been interviewed before, that is not technically true. Four of them broke their agency's code of silence for the 2003 article, and the others have spoken out since).

Kenneth Bickers, chairman of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, says he routinely talks of Hickenlooper's victory as "winning without running, which is not technically true, but it's substantively true.

So we know that Beyoncé's numerous sins include dressing sexy, being married, and saying that girls run the world when that isn't technically true.

Facebook tried to convey something that wasn't technically true during the keynote today.

"Chicago," I say, which isn't technically true, but it is where I moved to Berlin from.

Again, this is not technically speaking true: they are covered by a different sort of licence.

It may not be technically true to say that a team including only two players with previous Cup final experience suffered stage fright, Powell having omitted the veteran prop Garreth Carvell in his main selection surprise.