prove false

Example Sentences

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The risk to the strategy—and it is hard to overstate it—is that stocks will plummet should reports of peace prove false.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

He was so good at ideas mixed with drama that he could create a drama which would prove false the notion that class should matter or language or a person’s ability with either.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2021

Other senators noted that the argument for treating the issue as a matter of juvenile misbehavior does not hold if Kavanaugh’s current denials prove false.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2018

There is almost always a reason to be nervous, but the vast majority prove false.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2017

Spurning bribes and offers of aggrandizement, scorning the threats and terrors of traitors, you have preferred to suffer privations, afflictions and imprisonment, rather than prove false to the Government that has protected us all.

From Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot by Brownlow, William Gannaway