lying

Example Sentences

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Acting ICE leadership has said in statements that lying under oath would be taken seriously, even as the agency defends overall enforcement efforts.

From Salon

"If it looks like I am lying there doing nothing it means I am doing everything right," he said prior to the Games.

From Barron's

"This woman was lying on the bed as if she were dead. There are men next to her. I didn't understand who they were. I didn't know them. I'd never met them."

From BBC

Two federal agents have been put on leave and are under investigation for allegedly lying about a shooting in Minneapolis last month that left a Venezuelan immigrant wounded, a top US immigration official said Friday.

From Barron's

It depicts a woman dressed all in white who is lying on the floor.

From Los Angeles Times