Example sentences for: lie

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

  • But in the same article Isikoff reported that Steele had later recanted and said that Willey "had asked her to 'lie' about what had happened in order to give credibility to the allegation that she had been harassed."

  • "Determine whether or not obsession really does lie between madness and delusion.

  • There is less and less connection between what he's doing and seeing and being and "Real Life," because what's really happening is the lie.

  • A second type of lie is the mendacium officiosum , or "officious lie," whose purpose is to achieve some useful end or to prevent some distinct harm.

  • For just ¥620 you can lie down and have hot sand raked over you by a grinning, grandmotherly attendant — a ten-minute ordeal you’ll never forget.


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