How to Use fallacy in a Sentence

fallacy

noun

• The fallacy of their ideas about medicine soon became apparent.
• Avoiding this fallacy is not an easy thing to do.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
• More than four years after the fact and still this fallacy lives on.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2025
• Let’s keep pounding away at the archetype fallacy.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
• But some surgeons call this a fallacy.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 14 May 2026
• And the fallacy is this; that somehow in a trade, someone must lose.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
• These self-conscious times have furnished us with a new fallacy.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2020
• There's a fallacy out there that there's a partnership, and there's not.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2021
• There has developed a huge fallacy that great risotto is not a dish to be tried at home.
  — Fred Thompson, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Stewart is not buying the fallacy that life ends at a certain age.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026
• The river is the first to remind us that stoppage is a fallacy, hubris.
  — Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
• Part of the fun of it, in a way, is trying to find the fallacy or the hole in the dastardly scheme.
  — Dallas News, 13 July 2021
• The idea the food doesn’t need to be subsidized, that tech workers make so much, is a fallacy.
  — Nellie Bowles, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2018
• The movie is slightly prone to such fallacies, starting with the title.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Economists call it the sunk cost fallacy.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• The fallacy lies in the assumption that any of these pickups could replace a car.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 25 Feb. 2023
• So a good way to combat the planning fallacy is to break up a complex project into many sub-tasks.
  — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• The argument is that the demonstration was built on a big straw man fallacy.
  — Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
• That’s a fallacy that tribal nations spend a lot of time trying to dispel.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• Adele is trying to teach you an economics lesson in the sunk-cost fallacy.
  — Natalie Lin, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
• So the context of him committing suicide while on watch, that’s just a fallacy.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
• There is a way to overcome, or at least mitigate, the planning fallacy.
  — Christopher Cox, Time, 15 July 2021
• The fallacy in that argument might not jump out at everybody.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
• There’s a bit of a fallacy in that some expect teams that have overachieved to maintain their success for the rest of the season.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• The antidote to the price-equals-wealth fallacy is to scale down your expectations.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• The mind-set of modern sports is that winning is the only thing that matters, a fallacy that is a fast-track route to misery.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
• The fallacy was that it was limited to the United States.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
• For example, a common fallacy is the belief that things were better in some imagined past.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• It’s based on the fallacy of naturalism.
  — Christine Baranski, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2025
• Judging something by the amount of effort put into it was considered a fallacy.
  — Andrey Mir, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026