Example sentences for: belied

How can you use “belied” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Consecrated in 1147, 16 years before the church of St-Germain-des-Prés (see page 58), it is a significant work of early Gothic, belied by its 18th-century façade.

  • Although Bin Don has recalled that the party was intended to welcome Hazmi and Mihdhar to the community, this is belied by the hijackers' apparent decision to sequester themselves in the back room, and by the account of another party attendee.

  • Similarly, Thumairy's claim not to know Mohdar Abdullah is belied by Abdullah's contrary assertion.)

  • This claim of guilelessness was instantaneously belied by Torricelli's suggestion that he and three other Democratic "undecideds" had the narrow defeat of the bill.

  • But supporters of the tough line, such as the NSC's Susan Rice, argued that any conciliatory statements from Khartoum belied its unhelpful actions.


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