How to Use truism in a Sentence

truism

noun
  • That’s sort of a truism that’s tinged with a bit of humor.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Apr. 2022
  • There is a truism in the NBA that the ball will find energy.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • But there’s a truism in basketball that says the jumper is the last thing to go.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2023
  • But, as the truism goes, music stepped in where words failed.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • Scat Cat is the one who lays out that rock solid truism for us.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Yes, for years these two truisms have been in conflict.
    David Pierce, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
  • The future of the American board is already here, as the truism goes.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Prison -- as is often the truism -- most likely changed him.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Wait long enough and everything comes back in style is an age-old truism.
    Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2023
  • At that time, it was taken as a truism that a person with a stake in the outcome of a suit could not be trusted to tell the truth.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • The last, and maybe most important, truism of January at the gym?
    Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • At the heart of these collectors’ tales is a truism about watch collecting: The stories are the point.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Waiting in line for tacos is a truism of life in Los Angeles.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • There’s an old racing truism that pace makes the race, and that could definitely be the case in the 146th Preakness.
    Frank Vespe, baltimoresun.com, 14 May 2021
  • One truism of wine and food pairings that will never go out of style is that red wine and steak are a perfect match.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2022
  • There's a barstool somewhere in Iowa City -- And the one truism about all of these is the unexpected will occur.
    NBC News, 2 Feb. 2020
  • One of the truisms of the past three decades of terrorism is that jihadist threats rarely remain local.
    Bruce Hoffman and Seth G. Jones, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The corollary to this truism of the job market is that job-hunting is all about connections.
    Ellevate, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • The first inning on Tuesday night dialed this truism up to 11 and then kept going.
    Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The idea that movies run on empathy — a key insight of the great film critic Roger Ebert — is by now something of a truism.
    New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • All of the above is perhaps only a long-winded way of saying an old market truism: don’t fight the Fed.
    Brad McMillan, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • Wealth always drives culture, a truism that hardly needs to be said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • All the while one truism remains: Nothing beats one-on-one therapy and hands-on care.
    Joyce Wiswell For The Knee Institute, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2018
  • That truism, at last, seems to be shifting, with workers enjoying more of the fruits of their labor.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • There are as many truisms about editing a film as there are filmmakers.
    Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Asher would be the first to invoke the truism that Whitney inspires him to be a better person.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • To rework that old truism about hypocrisy, McConnell’s vice can no longer be bothered to pay tribute to virtue.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Hordes of travelers want to get away for the weekend, and airfares reflect that truism.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The other truism is that the United States must, in this new era of competition, augment its own sources of strength.
    Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The wry dating advice from a 65-year-old doula or the hilarious truisms dished out by a gay barber who’d seen it all.
    Sara Youngblood Gregory, refinery29.com, 24 June 2024

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