How to Use truth serum in a Sentence

truth serum

noun
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  • Harry joins her and this is where the truth serum is served.
    — Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, 14 May 2018
  • That said, my guess is Kizer, given truth serum, would agree with Doug.
    — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Short of a shot of truth serum, or a couple glasses of red wine, Brey’s never going to say.
    — Tom Noie, Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2020
  • His love acted on me, as on everyone, like a truth serum.
    — Benjamin Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
  • No law prohibits the use of truth serum, assuming the subject consents.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Sure, it was fueled by booze, but alcohol is as much a truth serum as anything else.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Let’s do truth serum, OK? Wouldn’t the employer maybe say it’s because this person was a man who liked other men?
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Steve and Robin end up getting captured, tortured and injected in truth serum.
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 26 May 2022
  • There were tests to see whether LSD could be used as a truth serum or possibly be sprayed on enemy troops as a kind of weapon of mass distraction.
    — Don Lattin, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2017
  • Now it was being recast as a kind of truth serum, a tool of deep personal introspection.
    — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And while part of that is the bitter swig of truth serum that the better team won, another part is that this was a breakthrough season and a harbinger of better days ahead for K-State under Weber.
    — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 24 Mar. 2018
  • The beauty that Frankie and her entourage find in the settings and outings of Sintra acts on them like a drug—not an intoxicant that lulls them into contented complacency but a kind of truth serum.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
  • There are truth serums disguised as cafecitos, herbs with magical powers, prayer altars and characters hailing from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Argentina.
    — Meg Medina, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • What Mitchell also does extraordinarily well is portray a man who unintentionally uses liquor as a truth serum of sorts.
    — Andreas Hale, The Root, 9 Feb. 2018
  • There’s truth serum involved, as well as an elementary-school yearbook, an interrupted road trip, too many coincidences, and a connection to a horrific crime.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The #nofilter Moussa can be disarmingly childlike and offensively straightforward, and Bouajila plays him like a zombie who’s been injected with too much truth serum.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Amalia tricks Mundi into revealing his personal history with Mary by bringing along a touched prostitute whose turn has rendered her mere bodily presence into truth serum.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Amazingly, not one of these very smart bobble heads is an actual conservation biologist, who would, if he or she was given truth serum, have said that our most noble, high-minded environmental law is an unmitigated failure.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2011
  • Another veteran, however — Mike Conley — came into his media session apparently dosed with truth serum.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022

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