white lie

Example Sentences

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When a New York reporter pressed her about her son’s claim of never telling a lie, Lillian conceded he tells “white lies.”

From Washington Post

“The big difficulty for me was having to tell white lies to my friends and family and fellow cast and crew,” Padalecki said in a recent interview.

From New York Times

Will America be a society organized around white fictions, white fantasies and white lies, both large and small?

From Salon

Instead, she added, he "told a white lie" and pretended he went to the game, when in fact he was filing his match report from a pub in Reading.

From BBC

However, the hidden identities, white lies and miscommunications from the online world bleed into the real world, plaguing Morioka but also ultimately bringing her out of her shell.

From New York Times