How to Use to tell the truth in a Sentence

to tell the truth

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• He was asked to raise his right hand and swear to tell the truth.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• This had to have all the warts in it in order to tell the truth.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
• Helly took the chance to tell the truth about how they get tortured at work.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025
• Laura threatens to tell the truth to her son.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
• At the start of the hearing, the boy raised his right hand and swore to tell the truth.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Angela, on the other hand, has no choice but to tell the truth about the trip.
  — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 5 May 2025
• Only the people on the witness stand have to swear to god to tell the truth.
  — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Truth has power, but only if there are people around to tell the truth.
  — Matthew Salesses, TIME, 7 May 2024
• The most effective lie is, of course, to tell the truth, but partly.
  — Washington Post Opinions Staff, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• Ready to tell the truth in a relationship?
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
• The book is about trying to tell the truth about my family and myself.
  — Jack Denton, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
• Any witnesses who testify must swear an oath to tell the truth.
  — Kate Brumback, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• But its propensity not to tell the truth could create problems for users.
  — PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
• But the most difficult duel, to tell the truth, was the last one with horses.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
• The trial had required him to tell the truth, leaving him unmasked.
  — Mike Spies, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
• Much of it, to tell the truth, reflected open antisemitism — but not all.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
• Finley also has always wanted to tell the truth.
  — Kylie Volavongsa, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• Austrian law did not oblige him to promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
  — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• Which relationships have the culture of safety to tell the truth and take risks?
  — Colin Bedell, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
• From its inception, the event was designed to be a chance to tell the truth about the past in public—the whole truth.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
• My advice to local health care providers, the doctors, the hospitals, and more, is to tell the truth.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
• Now the daughter of a legendary explorer is on a new kind of quest, to tell the truth about the cave in order to save it.
  — Jesse Sparks, Outside Online, 15 July 2021
• Madina discovers within her a resilience and courage to tell the truth.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• Because Knowles-Carter was raised in a household where young girls were told to tell the truth and shame the devil.
  — TIME, 14 Feb. 2024
• The brave people who dared to tell the truth, back when the public were a lot less trauma-informed, cleared a path for people like me.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
• The real crux of the song is in the bridge part, about wanting to tell the truth so that what happened to you doesn't happen to someone else.
  — Tricia Despres, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
• There is no document, meeting or conversation with anyone or group telling him not to tell the truth.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
• So this is going to be an opportunity for Devin Archer, just to tell the truth.
  — Ashley Carnahan, Fox News, 30 July 2023
• Christie made his announcement at an event in New Hampshire saying that he's been in the race to tell the truth.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• However, they are not obliged to tell the truth or to be completely open, and some of them are more reliable than others.
  — Abdul Rehman, The Athletic, 20 Nov. 2024