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How to use truly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Truly means in accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately. Example: “That is truly all I know.”

Examples of truly by meaning

adverbIn accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.

  • He adds, very truly, that what was fatal to such philosophies as his was not Christianity but the Copernican theory.1946, Bertrand Russell, chapter I, in History of Western Philosophy, page 27

adverbHonestly, genuinely, in fact, really.

  • That is truly all I know.
  • Truly, that is all I know.

adverbVery.

  • You are truly silly.
  • I’m distantly related to the truly great writer, Chaim Potok, which for a magazine editor seems like a good thing.2014 August 20, Mark Potok, “What’s in a Name?”, in Southern Poverty Law Center

More sentences with truly

  • The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.From the entry fine
  • It was his campaign manager's strategy that truly conquered the election for him.From the entry conquer
  • Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worth one's while.From the entry worth one's while
  • I sat him down and explained to him how things truly work around here.From the entry sit down
  • Compared to its counterparts from World War II, the Abrams main battle tank is truly massive.From the entry massive
  • It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.From the entry ascribe
  • The restaurant's dosas were truly atrocious, so I stopped going there.From the entry dosa
  • Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.From the entry lambaste
  • I’m sorry to break it to you, but your dress looks truly hideous.From the entry hideous
  • Now that all the ship's boilers were fired up, the voyage was well and truly underway.From the entry fired up
  • It's well and truly buggered now; you may as well throw it out.From the entry buggered
  • Many people remained in their hiding places until the war was well and truly over.From the entry well and truly
  • The book provides perspectives from a range of different authors; it is truly a polyvocal work.From the entry polyvocal
  • Some of those attributes are merely instantial, whereas others are truly generic.From the entry instantial
  • Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile.From the entry worthwhile
  • The true bugs are those of the order Hemiptera; and, by some lights, most truly those of the suborder Heteroptera.From the entry true
  • Truly valuable things have no price and cannot be bought.From the entry valuable
  • With her successes, she has truly conquered the committee, all of whose members now defer to her on most issues.From the entry conquer
  • Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.From the entry sideways
  • The conversation deepened and they began to truly share.From the entry deepen
  • Nothing in this world is truly permanent.From the entry permanent
  • Please write back soon! Yours truly, Alice.From the entry yours truly
  • This one was created by yours truly.From the entry yours truly
  • Is the cat truly cognizant in any real way?From the entry cognizant
  • The disparateness of our team was truly our strength.From the entry disparateness
  • And then up popped on my screen something truly bizarre.From the entry pop up
  • His unemotionality was great when he wanted a poker face but prevented him from truly enjoying the happy occasions of life.From the entry unemotionality
  • What truly lies behind her sudden change of heart?From the entry lie behind
  • That's something I truly believe inside.From the entry inside
  • The central theme of low-till agriculture is that the plough is not always necessary and that it should be used only when truly appropriate.From the entry plough
  • The government claims it will call an election if this bill does not pass. Is it truly ready to do so, or is it bluffing?From the entry bluff
  • A rainbow truly contains thousands of color values but can usually be discretized by human sentience into bands of primary and secondary colors.From the entry discretize
  • The after-prom party was truly epic.From the entry epic
  • Catholicism teaches that the Eucharist, while remaining under the physical appearance of bread and wine, becomes really and truly the body and the blood of Christ.From the entry appearance
  • We re-retired this machine because our newest equipment truly obviates it, and there's no realistic prospect that it will ever save us any money in the future.From the entry re-retire

Meaning of truly

  1. adverb In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
  2. adverb Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
  3. adverb Very.

Full definition of truly

Questions about truly in a sentence

How do you use truly in a sentence?
Truly is used as an adverb. For example: “That is truly all I know.”
What is a short sentence with truly?
“You are truly silly.”
What does truly mean?
Truly means in accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: truly (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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