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• This is a true story.
• The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[...]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
• The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
• Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[...]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
• a true copy;   a true likeness of the original
• making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time
• "A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.
• The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a “true obelisk,” even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.
• He’s turned out to be a true friend.
• This is true Parmesan cheese.
• The true king has returned!
• Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true, Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew.
• I held my breath and struck the ball. My aim was true, but I didn't give the damn thing enough gas. It died three feet from the cup.
• Let Z_t be twice the value of a true die shown on the t-th toss.
• Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[...]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
• this gun shoots true
• Some toolmakers are very careless when drilling the first hole through work that is to be bored, claiming that if the drilled hole comes out of true somewhat it can be brought true with the boring tool.
• She clapped her hands happily, and he thought how pretty she was really, that is, the upper part of her face—from the bridge of the nose down she was somewhat out of true.
• The crate shifted on its pallet, out of sync now. As the lift withdrew, the crate skidded with it, dragged by friction and gravity, skewing farther and farther from true.
• The strength and number of blows depends on how far out of true the shafts are.
• We spent all night truing up the report.
• He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
• Is this statement true or false?
• It's a true story.