lie
Example Sentences
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Little told the jury: "The defendant's claim that Sheryl Wilkins had injuries on her body already is not correct, it's a lie."
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
If two hours of location information qualifies as a search, where exactly does the constitutional boundary lie?
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2026
The result is that better values lie in long-term munis now yielding 4%, closer to Treasury rates.
From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026
Tennis-court-sized supercomputers are used for frontier scientific research and problems such as predicting hurricanes and determining where oil deposits lie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
I want to tell him he doesn’t have to wait, but I don’t because it’s a lie, and I’m getting tired of convincing myself to believe lies I don’t believe.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Vocabulary lists containing lie
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