LIE in a Sentence

Learn LIE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
406 example sentences for LIE, such as:
1. Well, she'd tell a lie about it.
2. I shall lie down all day tomorrow.
3. Art is a lie that tells the truth.
4. As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
5. She could lie down and sleep for days.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LIE
lie
 v.  tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
 v.  assume a reclining position
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He had never before been convicted of a lie, and all the resources of evasion failed him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  I shall lie down all day tomorrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  So the matter of Ashley's letters did not lie very heavily on her conscience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  But, Melanie, heavy thoughts lie on my heart and I will open my heart to you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  I lie and look at the boys sleeping near me and I wonder if the twins or Alex or Cade think these same thoughts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  He gladly would have sided with the doctor but he could not lie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  Well, she'd tell a lie about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  Prissy went off at a trot, the letter gripped in her hand, and Scarlett went back upstairs, trying to think of some plausible lie to explain Mrs. Elsing's failure to appear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  She could lie down and sleep for days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  If she could only lie down and sleep and wake to feel Ellen gently shaking her arm and saying: "It is late, Scarlett."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Never again could Scarlett lie down, as a child, secure beneath her father's roof with the protection of her mother's love wrapped about her like an eiderdown quilt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  How cool the water was, how good to lie here in softness, like a child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  And I could only lie there and pray that the light of the flames wouldn't show up my hiding place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  For an awful moment she feared he was going to ask about her livestock and she braced herself for a good lie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  "It's made out of Mother's curtains," she answered, too desperate to lie about this shame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
1  Though a lie be well dressd, it is ever overcome.
2  She was prepared to lie in order to achieve her ends.
3  See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day.
4  Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
5  Farmers are eligible for government support if they let a certain amount of land lie fallow.
6  In the last analysis , the responsibility for this failure must lie with the minister.
7  He'd do anything to cover his ass, including lie, cheat and murder.
8  Art is a lie that tells the truth.
9  As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
10  As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
11  As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
12  To have a stomach and lack meat; to have meat and lack a stomach; to lie in bed and cannot rest; are great miseries.
13  He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth.
14  The committee decided to let the matter lie over until the meeting.
15  If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.