How to Use false in a Sentence

false

1 of 2 adjective

• He registered at the hotel under a false name.
• Indicate whether each of the following statements is true or false.
• The first two claims are false.
  — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
• But those rumors turn out to be false.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2026
• This statement rang false to many of us.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
• Both of these stories are false.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
• Tufty also claims this is false.
  — Eric Adler june 4, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
• For those not keeping up, this is false.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
• These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes.
  — Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
• Gen Z has seen through that false promise.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• Police said the text message proved to be false.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
• That can create a false sense of safety.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026
• Robyn is now arguing that the choice is a false one.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• The false assurance was more than a slip.
  — Eric Tucker, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
• My eyes got a dark brown smoky shadow and long false lashes.
  — Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 31 Jan. 2026
• The passenger gave the deputy a false name.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
• That’s a false equivalence a lot of the time.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
• Don’t try to fast-track them out with false optimism.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
• All reports to the contrary are false.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
• Push back on the false fraud narrative.
  — Monique B. Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
• James was charged with bank fraud and making a false statement.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 21 Jan. 2026
• Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
  — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
• Kai Havertz played the false-ish nine role astutely.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• What if the false poison Juliet drinks hadn’t worked?
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
• These claims are entirely false.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
• The jury members will make three statements with one of them false.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025
• That vote has since been the subject of false theories about her death.
  — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2026
• Being lured into a space on a false promise?
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 June 2026
• Every false hope and turnover chain felt crueler than the last.
  — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
• Welcome to false spring in Atlanta.
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026

false

2 of 2 adverb

• The drive started with left tackle Charles Leno false-starting.
  — Star Tribune, 10 Nov. 2020
• Against the Buccaneers, the Cowboys offense false-started a league-worst four times.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
• The 49ers’ chances to keep the game close fizzled late when a touchdown was overturned, and Nick Mullens false-started on a sneak at the goal line and then threw an interception.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• Sequences like when Pat Bryant false-started to turn a third-and-1 into third-and-6, and Matt Peart was flagged for holding the next snap to wipe out an explosive play.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
• That included the offensive line penalties and rookie receiver Pat Bryant false-starting on third-and-1 from the Jets’ 39-yard line.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
• With time winding down in a scoreless game, the Gladiators made the most of a penalty corner when two of the four Hereford defenders false-started, crossing the goal line before the ball was put in play.
  — Rich Scherr, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2021
• Meanwhile, forcing axioms, which deem the continuum hypothesis false by adding a new size of infinity, would also extend the frontiers of mathematics in other directions.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2013
• Sergio Pérez finished strongly at the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday to cross the line in 10th but was bumped down to 15th after the race when he was ruled to have false-started when the race resumed after an earlier suspension.
  — ABC News, 7 June 2026