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Lying in sentence

878 examples of Lying in a sentence

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.
The last thing I remember was lying on a white blanket, telling my surgeon that I needed to see my mother again, and to please try and save my voice.
And the women, who I was so privileged to meet when there were three survivors, told these stories about lying in their cots in the refugee camps.
Well, if you have a high-speed camera, and you have a block of ballistics gelatin lying around, pretty soon somebody does this.
They get people into a fMRI scanner, and while they're lying there, through a tube, they get to sip wine.
I watch that TV show 'Lie To Me.' I know you're lying."
And they start up that path by accepting a core proposition, and that proposition is the following: Lying is a cooperative act.
Truth number one about lying: Lying's a cooperative act.
Lying is an attempt to bridge that gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies about who we wish we were, how we wish we could be, with what we're really like.
We can't believe how prevalent lying is.
We're essentially against lying.
That's truth number two about lying.
We're against lying, but we're covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries and centuries.
Lying has evolutionary value to us as a species.
Well guess what, they're known to freeze their upper bodies when they're lying.
Now, we've talked a little bit about how to talk to someone who's lying and how to spot a lie.
It turns out Microsoft is not the only company whose body is lying across the railroad tracks today.
But everything else is just lying there.
So I personally am not lying awake at night worrying about this at all.
I like to say that 95 percent of all parents have a favorite, five percent are lying about it.
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.
What we did, anyway, look, what we did, we didn't just take this lying down at John Hunter Hospital and elsewhere.
I want this book to look like it's lying to you, desperately and hopelessly, the way an alcoholic would.
Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.
We had lots of old jazz records lying around the house.
She sees her baby naked, lying under some blue lights, looking kind of vulnerable.
And there I was, lying there in this tiny space, hot, dark, claustrophobic, matchbox-sized, behind my eyes, but it was really weird, like, after this went on for days, weeks, months, that space would get bigger and darker and cooler until I really looked forward to that half an hour of enforced immobility and rest, and I really looked forward to going to that place of darkness.
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