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Meanings of lie to in English
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Usage of lie to in English
1
S: The dwellers of the thicket gave the lie to the messengers.
2
The event has sometimes given the lie to the most eminent physicians.
3
That was a lie to be sure; but it served his purpose.
4
She gives the lie to the outcry of her own Pythian power.
5
Her strained expression gave the lie to the cheeriness of her words.
6
There is that about the knight which gives the lie to suspicion.
7
He was innocent, perfectly blameless; he would not lie to save himself.
8
Believe me well, I will not lie to ye in one word.
9
Again and again our history has given the lie to such fears.
10
His hollow voice and laboured breath gave the lie to his assertion.
11
The great white medicine man does not lie to his red brother.
12
Mose saw the storm coming, but would not lie to avoid it.
13
He reached the place where he could no longer lie to you.
14
Then a moulvie whom I met once did not lie to me.
15
To deny it would be merely uttering a lie to no purpose.
16
She dared not confide that lie to the abbe, fearing his absent-mindedness.
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