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Examples of lies in a Sentence

Examples of lie
1. During the scanning process, subjects were asked to lie still with eyes open and not think initiatively.
2. During fieldwork we observed that both species of mites usually lie along the rachis of the feather, and do not occupy the sides of the barbs (except in highly parasitized hosts), suggesting that the body length should match the interbarb width.
3. Interestingly, the iridophores, which are neurally controlled structural reflectors [21 ,22 ] that lie subadjacent to the chromatophore layer [3 ,23 ], do not bind any of the antibodies we used.
4. They open postero-laterally through the membrane between the mediotergites VIII-IX. The reservoirs are large; the acinous glands are deeply placed inside the abdomen and lie laterally on each side of the ovaries.
5. Dissociation constants (K i ) for drugs typically lie in the same range as K i for natural ligands; in most instances (different proteins and docking conditions), vastatins are the strongest interactors, with atorvastatin ranking top in half of the cases.
Examples of lay
1. ‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’
2. Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
3. Before we could lay the flooring we had to lay a subsurface under it to keep it flat and supoort it.
4. Snow lay thick on the ground.
5. It has a huge trickledown effect,” said Mr. Cost, who had to lay off four employees because business was slow this year and last.
6. She lay unconscious on the floor.
7. Outside lay emancipated Berrytown, to unemancipated Kitty only a dumb panorama: inside, her meals, her lessons and perpetual consultations with her mother on bias folds and gussets while they made their dresses or sewed for the Indian missions.
8. Despite the watchful nature of the passing gazelles, the jaguar lay unspotted under the bush.
Examples of lies
1. The charm of Clayton's book lies in the multitudinousness of its subject ...
2. The spinal cord lies in the vertebral canal, and within the cord is the neurocele or neural canal. Both of these canals normally contain neurolymph.
3. A pack of lies.
4. The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
5. White lies are verbal cases of pious fraud
6. There is danger in trying too cleanly to diagram the roots of Hedda’s pathology. That way lies reductiveness.
7. Therein lies the rub.
8. Nex' room my boy lies in the shadder an' dark.
9. Then you dropped a shitflood of lies, whiny accusations, and obscenities.
Examples of lain
1. Nor do I know how long it is (For I have lain entranced, I wis). --Coleridge.
2. The winter had set in airly, and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out.
3. He had lain there for many hours.
4. The book had lain on the attic floor until it was found decades later.
5. Past perfect: 'I have lain low because the police have been looking for me.'
Examples of lied
1. After supper, the men sprawled in their bunks or along the deacon-seat, and fearsomely they spat and swore, and fearsomely they lied.
2. She lied plausibly, but the police suspected her anyway.
3. I lied to him to appease him so he would bug off.
4. Revisiting familiar lied texts [ … ] or simply balladeering in The Light That Is Felt, Ives begins songs the way we expect him to and then takes us someplace we would not have thought of going.
5. If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
6. If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.
7. Tom said Harry had lied, and Harry recriminated by saying Tom had manipulated him.
Examples of lying
1. When he was lying still on the field, he really had me going. I was afraid he was dead.
2. Present: 'I'm lying low because the police are looking for me.'
3. I'm sure that pencil sharpener is lying around somewhere.
4. He never got promoted because he was always lying down on the job.
5. When a politician claims he can lower taxes without cutting spending, he's lying through his teeth. ‎
6. I don't know what they expect, but I am certainly not going to take this lying down.
7. The boy’s father yelled at him for lying to him about cleaning up the mess.
8. The Inquiry concluded that the last four months of her life had been spent in a black bin bag in the bath in an unheated bathroom, lying in her own urine and excrement.
9. Lying on my little sunchair, I keep my sundress on for a while.