How to Use verity in a Sentence

verity

noun

• Now in his 50s, Bill finds the verities of that life breaking down.
  — Bruce Barcott, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Her memoir and three novels — produced in the span of less than a decade — feel hewn from these grand Faulknerian verities.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• But remember our endeavor is not to restore what was old and good but rather to make ourselves anew while maintaining the verities of the past.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• Hickey remained unconvinced about the verity of Mumler’s art, and went to the city marshal’s office to file a grievance.
  — Errol Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• March has brought us verities, data, and a plague—together with a new set of questions that are already reshaping the 2020 campaign.
  — John A. Farrell, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2020
• For years, Wiz's lighthearted verities on partying and living life on the edge has garnered acclaim and praise.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 13 June 2018
• So, now, project those same eternal verities of teenage life onto a homeless girl wearing someone else’s old clothes, and angst becomes nightmare.
  — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• We who care most about the good character of candidates believe in eternal verities and unchanging moral truth.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
• Each asked for more personal information than would be necessary to mail a blank card, like date of birth and telephone number, making a verity of claims.
  — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2021
• Assumptions about ideological verities and what the public will or won’t accept from politicians have been battered in the last three years.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• Technologies grow obsolete as the world spins forward, but the verities of art, the lessons of history, and the tenets of great philosophers are enduringly relevant.
  — Charles Isherwood, Town & Country, 28 June 2017
• Once again the impression that these people are at once real and fictional adds piquancy to the dialogue, which aims not to set forth verities but to pursue conjectures.
  — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• Eliza Hittman has written and directed with the utmost delicacy and verity.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
• The space, unencumbered by outside (read: white) expectations that can often influence the verity of the work, allows filmmakers to share their projects with the world exactly as they were meant to be shared.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2022
• Hardly any of these strategic verities can be applied to a world in which AI plays a significant role in national security.
  — The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
• At 91, Bucky Pizzarelli has built a vast and loyal audience among listeners who value the eternal verities of mainstream jazz-swing guitar.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• Putting on a successful jazz festival means embracing certain show business verities, time honored truths like the importance of opening with a bang.
  — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
• Ambition because Victor Frankenstein has challenged death itself, one of the universe’s eternal verities.
  — Cory Doctorow, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
• But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of long-standing Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party’s most biting critics of the new commander in chief.
  — Michael R. Gordon, Orange County Register, 20 Feb. 2017
• The suspension also emphasizes fundamental verities: unequal-length control arms in front, a massive Jaguar-like multi-link independent setup in the back.
  — Michael Jordan, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2020
• Old political verities proved worthless, and government largely failed to relieve the disaster.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2020
• Regardless of their verity, allusions to Shakespeare in the political realm and politics in Shakespearian productions seem unlikely to abate any time soon.
  — Emma Talkoff, Time, 12 June 2017
• This conception of liberty is severed from the moral foundations of democracy: loyalty to country; the love, support, and discipline of the family; and the eternal verities conveyed by traditional religion.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 20 June 2019
• Instead of confronting the realities of current politics, too many leaders were content to indulge in ideological mirages, in which the policy proposals of 1981 would be eternal verities.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
• Her only hope may be Mouse (Tyrese Gibson), a grocery store owner who unwittingly assists in her initial escape from Malone and his crew, then becomes her equally authority-defying and verity-seeking confidante.
  — Keith Uhlich, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2019
• Meanwhile they are being studied by reform-minded Republicans, grappling with the rejection of conservative verities that Mr Trump represents.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• Definitions become riddles, anecdotes, opinions, myths, and vintage metaphysical verities.
  — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019

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