How to Use truism in a Sentence

truism

noun
  • Vance and Miller spoke as if this were a truism.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Bear in mind the truism that stock markets can always go down as well as up.
    — Dr. Ronald Premuroso, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Wait long enough and everything comes back in style is an age-old truism.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2023
  • There’s a truism that all models are wrong, but some are useful.
    — ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
  • 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
  • His deep arsenal gives him a chance to handle a truism of the craft.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • There are as many truisms about editing a film as there are filmmakers.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Wealth always drives culture, a truism that hardly needs to be said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • This truism holds, whether the disrupter is gunning for the status quo from the left or the right.
    — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2025
  • That is a truism of NFL free agency.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • This is certainly true—and a rather banal truism.
    — The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
  • Another truism is that young people tend to push back against the views of their parents.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
  • One ironclad truism about sports is that all streaks eventually come to an end.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • That the gains of trade have been spread unequally now amounts to a truism among economists.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • That said, there are guideposts and truisms that will give many savers a good shot at getting it right, experts said.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Waiting in line for tacos is a truism of life in Los Angeles.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • The corollary to this truism of the job market is that job-hunting is all about connections.
    — Ellevate, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • 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
  • Hordes of travelers want to get away for the weekend, and airfares reflect that truism.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • This truism sits at the very heart of Republicans' fight over a grand budget deal.
    — Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The future of the American board is already here, as the truism goes.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This is a truism in all of professional baseball, not just the majors.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • The last, and maybe most important, truism of January at the gym?
    — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • And that truism is precisely why the battle for the Black mind has been ongoing.
    — Karida L. Brown, Essence, 21 May 2025
  • One of the truisms in the past for Team Canada at some best-on-best events is needing a few games to find its game.
    — Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026

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