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.
  • The fact that it’s getting eaten isn’t the fault of the herbivores.
    Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This microbe testing is in fact required by law, but there’s no one forcing brands to actually do it.
    Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In fact, the health benefits of pumpkin are pretty remarkable.
    Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In fact, the league has a number of formal objections to the re-org plan up its sleeve, and as Bromley said, those will be dealt with in due course.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In fact, the financial sector is the No. 1 group so far in October, adding just over 5%.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In fact, it has even been said that up until the 1940s, pink was actually considered a masculine color.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Apr. 2023
  • In fact, sitting in silence together feels completely comfortable.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Police critics said the fact that so many of the recent cases involved suspects who appeared to be in the midst of a crisis was alarming and showed the need for alternatives to police responses to such calls.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The jury, which began deliberations earlier in the afternoon, agreed that Sanderson was, in fact, at fault, not Paltrow.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, there have been hundreds of proofs of the Pythagoras’ groundbreaking theorem, but almost none of them—if not none at all—have independently proved it using trigonometry.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 31 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
  • In fact, no one even notices when the house is set ablaze.
    Washington Post, 24 May 2021

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