How to Use untrue in a Sentence

untrue

adjective
  • He made untrue statements to the press.
  • Her lover had been untrue.
  • The first—and best—way is to not make claims that are untrue.
    — Erica Brinker, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • A lot of the details of my books are not untrue.
    — Andrea Lavinthal, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • So the idea that late-night is dead is simply untrue.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But so far with this dossier, nothing yet has been proven untrue.
    — NBC News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • At least one point Toomey made turned out to be patently untrue.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 June 2020
  • Who has ever had anyone lie on them and say things that were untrue?
    — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2020
  • And some of the claims in the episode are demonstrably untrue.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • Like the ones printed last year, the rumors turned out to be untrue.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2019
  • There are so many untrue claims that some people question the true ones.
    — Katie Robertson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Frank says most of the Yablans stories that make the rounds are untrue.
    — Andrew Tobias, Vulture, 7 July 2025
  • Kurtz, though, does not mention that Spicer’s claim was untrue.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Feb. 2018
  • While the story is likely untrue, that doesn't stop the thing-a-lings.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The 21-year-old doesn’t blame her fans for falling for untrue videos, though.
    — Amanda Curran, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The White House said the report is untrue.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 27 May 2026
  • At the same time, there’s so much within the novel that reads as trite, out of place, and untrue.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The notion that trans girls are a threat or pose danger to cis girls is simply untrue.
    — Joanna Hoffman, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The seller said the dog was housebroken, which proved to be untrue.
    — Te-Ping Chen, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Hud says his mom is a singer with a Grammy, but one of these details is untrue.
    — Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 11 July 2024
  • The claim was untrue, and soon the homesteading plan was riddled with problems.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The claim is untrue; Trump has made no such announcement.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, this doesn’t mean that the stories behind each of these assets are untrue.
    — Rob Berger, Forbes, 29 May 2021
  • These claims are not only untrue but also deeply hurtful.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
  • These claims are not only untrue but also deeply hurtful.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The state claimed the evidence showed both statements were untrue.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 30 June 2023
  • These statements are harmful and untrue, Chabot said.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • White House spokesman Judd Deere said Troye’s claims were untrue.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
  • His show began a few months after the untrue statements aired on the network.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • How to be ready, in the moment, to not lapse into the dream, the spell, of the untrue or (worse) the half-true?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2025

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