Synonym: exaggerate, fabricate, falsify, fib, recline, repose. Antonym: rise, truth. Similar words: lie on, alien, lie in, client, belief, relief, lie down, believe. Meaning: [laɪ] n. 1. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth 2. Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968) 3. position or manner in which something is situated. v. 1. be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position 2. be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position 3. originate (in) 4. be and remain in a particular state or condition 5. tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive 6. have a place in relation to something else 7. assume a reclining position.
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211, She used to lie awake at night worrying about how to pay the bills.
212, Farmers are now paid to let their land lie fallow .
213, As she was talking, he suddenly broke in, saying, "That's a lie".
214, I told her a lie about what I was doing.
215, She reacted like a child caught out in a lie.
216, I was very careful about what I said. It's best to let sleeping dogs lie, I think.
217, The policeman waited to detect the prisoner in a lie.
218, If you want to win the first place, you can't lie on your oars.
219, You don't have to lie to me. I know the score.
220, Let the matter lie over until the next committee meeting.
221, A lie is as much a lie , when it is whispered or when it is proclaimed at the market cross.
222, These are questions that lie outside the purview of our inquiry.
223, The father has dusted the boy's jacket for telling a lie.
224, A lot of national parks lie in the areas inhabited by minority nationality people.
225, We would have a lazy lunch and then lie on the beach in the sun.
226, The castle was hidden by the lie of the land.
227, Don't lie to me.You know damn well what was happening.
228, He decided to lie off because he had other business to deal with.
229, These new figures give the lie to the belief that unemployment is going down.
229, Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
230, You don't have to do anything just lie back and enjoy the journey.
231, Dim the lighting – it is unpleasant to lie with a bright light shining in your eyes.
232, I think I'll go and lie down for a while.
233, The responsibilities of a teacher lie not only in the inculcation of knowledge, but also in the setting of good examples and cultivating of virtues.
234, I won't be able to look him in the eye if I lie.
235, I believed her-for surely she would not lie to me.
236, We went ahead to scout out the lie of the land.
237, The interests of the collective lie before the interests of the individual.
238, Extraordinarily, the favourites for the title lie at the bottom of the table.
239, We first met in 1982, no, I tell a lie, it was 1983.
240, An old man spread his coat on the floor and insisted that I lie down for a while.