How to Use verity in a Sentence

verity

noun
  • But the passing verities never throw out of style.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among them is one verity that sets the company’s surreptitious nature at the center of its culture.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 3 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Eliza Hittman has written and directed with the utmost delicacy and verity.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
  • History is more about understanding change than finding eternal verities.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Old political verities proved worthless, and government largely failed to relieve the disaster.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2020
  • Ambition because Victor Frankenstein has challenged death itself, one of the universe’s eternal verities.
    — Cory Doctorow, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • 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
  • Stalin is there too, wearing an expression that could only be described as stony and positioned, with due regard for the historical verities, within a dagger's throw of Vladimir Ilyich’s back.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Taking a whimsical approach to geographical verities, Fernando Poyón constructs a world map in which countries have been jumbled out of position and into a single continent.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • Definitions become riddles, anecdotes, opinions, myths, and vintage metaphysical verities.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the intellectual self-questioning and anguished artistic experimentation that began in the early twentieth century after the annihilation of Europe’s old verities did not find fertile ground in the United States, either before the war or after it.
    — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • But the intellectual self-questioning and anguished artistic experimentation that began in the early twentieth century after the annihilation of Europe’s old verities did not find fertile ground in the United States, either before the war or after it.
    — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025

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