Lie

//laɪ̯//

"Lie" in a Sentence (40 examples)

People who will lie for you, will lie to you.

You look pale. You had better lie down in bed at once.

You must not tell a lie.

As you make your bed, you must lie on it.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

I can't lie to you.

It's evident that you told a lie.

When bears sleep or lie down, their postures depend on whether they want to get rid of heat or conserve it.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Above all, don't tell a lie.

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The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.

Under an oak were lying asleep a pair of shepherds.

Though ye haue lien among the pots, yet shall yee bee as the wings of a doue, couered with siluer, and her feathers with yellow gold.

The watchful traveller […] / Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.

Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

Ying-yang county lies 70 li southwest of the modern Teng-feng county, Honan.

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hidden; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves

The paper does not lie smooth on the wall.

Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.

He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labour, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.

And it came to passe after these things, that his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and shee said, Lie with me.

While I was now trifling at home, I saw London, […] where I lay one night only.

Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night.

The Wind is lowd, and will not lie till the Ship be cleard of the dead.

An appeal lies in this case from the ordinary to the arches.

When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.

If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.

Don't lie to me!

It is true that the latter had assumed much more of the fault than was rightly his, but if he lied a little he may be excused, for he lied in the service of a woman, and he lied like a gentleman.

Lie to get what I came for Lie to get just what I need Lie to get what I crave Lie and smile to get what's mine

Photographs often lie.

Sorry, I haven't seen your keys anywhere...wait, I lied! They're right there on the coffee table.

I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.

Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies.

Wishing this lie of life was o'er.

The cake is a lie.

It won’t be long now before Miss Lie starts finding out. The U. N. finally has agreed on a man to take over Trygve Lie’s title and woes. Some time in May the Lies will be packed and Oslo-bound—most of the Lies, that is, not Guri.

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