truth serum

Example Sentences

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As the YouTube hit demonstrates, hot sauce isn’t just for daredevils and masochists: It’s a truth serum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

“If opening day was today, he would certainly be running out there in center, which I know he loves. I think if you put truth serum in him, that’s what he’d want to do, regardless.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

And so, in the real world, one submits to these devices nervously, as one would to some kind of truth serum or all-seeing eye: There is no hiding here.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2023

“COVID,” he says, “is a truth serum bringing it all out.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2020

Maybe it isn’t possible to lie under the truth serum, but to select which version of the truth to tell: Four is his name, hut it is not his name.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth