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Example sentences for: lies

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

The author, who dogsleds through the Arctic, decides that the greatest thrill lies in returning home with all his toes.
Hyde and others would be tempted to say that lying to free American hostages and breaking the law to protect Latin America from communism are more justified than lies to hide a tawdry affair.
The village of Somerset lies only half a mile beyond the fort.
The responsibility for all this mess lies with the president and him alone, not with the special prosecutor who was appointed by the Justice Department, for good and obvious reasons.
Take North's celebrated score for A Streetcar Named Desire : The score's brilliance lies in the way the languorous New Orleans jazz, redolent of sin, plumes out of the dive up the street from the Kowalskis', curls along the block, and squeezes itself through a radio.