How to Use fact in a Sentence
fact
noun- He did it, and that's a fact.
- The book is filled with interesting facts and figures.
- Rapid electronic communication is now a fact.
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But in the end, the scariest thing of all was the fact that someone had to go home.
— Calie Schepp, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024 -
This is my first time on an escooter in Paris or, in fact, anywhere.
— WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023 -
Globally, in fact, there was plenty of good news about world happiness.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023 -
The 21-year-old, in fact, hinted after the Mainz game that talks are going well.
— Manuel Veth, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 -
That all changed at the end of Episode 5, when the show revealed Teen was, in fact, Billy.
— Adam B. Vary, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024 -
The implication, that these fans grew up alongside Tyler, is in fact a feature of his success.
— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024 -
In fact, one of the basketball league’s Staley played in growing up was started by Laney.
— Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023 -
In fact, research indicates that the number of teens with eating disorders at least doubled during the pandemic.
— Sydney Hartman-Munick, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2023 -
By the mid-1980s, in fact, the brand was a mid-nine-figure business selling its products in drug, convenience and grocery stores.
— Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024 -
Apply pesticides or herbicides less frequently—the runoff is terrible for watersheds (in fact, that might be an easier way to help amphibians than installing a frog pond).
— Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023 -
The Florida Department of Health issued a similar statement in a fact sheet in 2020.
— USA Today, 30 Mar. 2023 -
The whole speech, in fact, had the feel of a hostage video.
— Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021 -
When the facts fall apart, cry Fake News and Deep State.
— Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023 -
Which makes the fact that the victim was the star of just such a project all the more eerie.
— Wendy Grossman Kantor, EW.com, 27 June 2019 -
Of course, things could change, because of the facts and all of that.
— Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018 -
The fact that the bruise takes a while to heal does not mean something’s wrong.
— Maggie Astor, New York Times, 27 July 2019 -
In fact, there is no mention of the illness in the film.
— Marc Malkin, Variety, 15 Dec. 2021 -
The police were stumped by the fact that no one in the house had heard the attack.
— James Karst, NOLA.com, 13 May 2018 -
The president could have gone away and checked the facts.
— The Economist, 25 July 2019 -
As the old saying goes -- where there's a fact, there's a gag.
— Sherry Liang, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021 -
In fact, phones should not be allowed in the room at all.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2022 -
But just the fact that there aren’t very many of these forums . . .
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2022 -
In fact, Ivey said Scarlett made the most of his time away.
— Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2018 -
But the fact that the two are on the same page is probably a good thing, right?
— Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 16 Jan. 2019 -
The fact that both of us never sat on the block next to each other.
— Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2020 -
And in fact, such a couple appeared on the show in 1979.
— Carmel Dagan, Variety, 19 Aug. 2024 -
In fact, the state has more of them than any other in the nation.
— Laura Layden, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
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