have the ring of truth
have a ring of truth

At least in a first reading, the story had the ring of truth.

What he said had the ring of truth to it.

Many political experts here say his story has the ring of truth.

She read Paul's letters and felt they had the ring of truth.

It was the first thing she'd said all day that had the ring of truth.

The situation you describe does not have the ring of truth.

Some places on the map have the ring of truth.

I knew that he could be lying, but his words had the ring of truth.

When does hypothesis become fact because it has the ring of truth?

I don't know about the bowling part, but the big point has the ring of truth.

It has the ring of truth,' replied the old man.

"People saying something in private they never meant to be public doesn't mean it has the ring of truth.

Do they have the ring of truth to you?

His words had the ring of truth about them.

Perhaps the story was apocryphal, but it had the ring of truth for me.

There's nothing like absurdity that has the ring of truth.

"To some extent, that has the ring of truth," he once said.

He also thought it had the ring of truth.

The problem with Jeffers is that everything he says has the ring of truth.

A storyteller is nothing if his tales don't have the ring of truth.

And yet his arguments had the ring of truth.

Still, as Yule shows, his descriptions have the ring of truth.

And in this case, Arum's reference had the ring of truth.

This emphasis on people - the populace - has the ring of truth about it.

And as the woman told it, I must admit it had the ring of truth.

So there's a ring of truth in what Jesus is saying here.

That couldn't all be true, she thought, yet the tales had a ring of truth to them.

This had a ring of truth - except for the butter.

"His denials seem to have a ring of truth in them."

"No." And yet the word had a ring of truth.

But what you said has a ring of truth.

But one or two things he said had a ring of truth.'

The story has a ring of truth in it.

It doesn't have a ring of truth about it at all?

"There's a ring of truth in period instruments; this is the way the music sounded."

The gloomy predictions that no one would clear seemed to have a ring of truth.

The geographical wisecracks turn out to have a ring of truth.

Some stories have a ring of truth, if a little exaggerated: They do fit the known biography.

The story had a ring of truth, and it should stand, as long as there was no one to dispute him.

At first Judd wasn't even sure he could believe the story, but it had a ring of truth to it.

Hysteria notwithstanding, that prophecy has turned out to have a ring of truth.

Whether true or not (Besi would say cheerfully), the story had a ring of truth.

Everything she'd related had a ring of truth that made Abbie feel queasy.

The tale was pretty bizarre, but it had a ring of truth to it.

He didn't know when the knowledge had come to him, but once uttered the statement had a ring of truth.

Although the event is reported only in late sources and embellished with pious details, the account has a ring of truth.

As much as he wanted to believe otherwise, Balim's words had a ring of truth to the Doctor.

Although some doubt has been cast on the authenticity of this account, there are many vivid details which have a ring of truth about them.

Too much of what the old cuttlefish of the junk world was saying had a ring of truth to it.

This mode plays with the notion that a picture doesn't lie, for a picture can have a ring of truth despite its obvious artificiality.