Lying in example sentence

I wondered about you when you told me never to leave a box of wooden strike-anywhere matches just lying around the house, because the mice might get into them and start a fire.

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When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch, as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young.

I don't want to defend the oil and gas industry but I'd be lying if I said I was surprised to hear they were the number one polluter.

It seems to us that when people start dissembling, people start lying about things, that's when it gets really interesting.

And it's a 35-key keyboard designed to fit both inside the scanner, be magnetically safe, have minimal interference that would contribute to any artifact, and have this cushion so that it can rest on the players' legs while they're lying down in the scanner, playing on their back.

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