How to Use belie in a Sentence

belie

verb

• Their actions belie their claim to be innocent.
• Tatis ran the bases with a speed that belied his 6-foot-3 frame.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The idea that these were stolen to order belies the facts.
  — Swapna Krishna, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2017
• But the moves of the workout itself belie this prim ethos.
  — Danielle Friedman, The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
• But under the hood, there’s a rich set of metrics, some of which belie the price point.
  — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2020
• But the very structure of the law belied the state’s argument.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Johnson tends to play the game with a chip on his shoulder that belies his young age.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• But the essence of Biden’s argument is belied by the public record.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2019
• But the women's team's results on the field seem to belie Lloyd's post-2015 critique.
  — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
• The stellar play and the confidence to go with it belie Young's tender age.
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 29 May 2021
• Irwin’s words belie the claim that Americans didn’t know about the Nazi war against the Jews.
  — Gil Troy, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• Yet the mood belied no indication that the club was about to go under.
  — Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 14 May 2018
• The nature of the shale boom is such that proved reserves belie the size of the ultimate resource base.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• But the strength of this team is that its young players already have wise heads that belie their tender years.
  — John Leicester, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
• His 5-foot-8 frame belies his savviness and abilities on the court.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Like Spider-Man, too, its PG rating belies its jokes and themes for all ages.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 30 June 2023
• But that statement belied the last five years of Perez’s tenure.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 17 June 2019
• For 2000, a rather mild restyling job belies bigger changes beneath the Legacy's skin.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 15 July 2023
• His stat line of eight points and six turnovers belies how crucial Miller's performance proved to be.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2020
• The oblong Citroën is far from the only car whose odd looks belie its prowess.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• This looks to me too convenient a narrative for Moscow, and one that’s belied by the facts.
  — Douglas London, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• James should have been a fifth-round pick, as his hands and elusiveness are top-notch and his toughness belies his slight frame.
  — Noel Harris, sacbee, 29 Apr. 2018
• Two sparse trees in the dining room, belie the grand, bursting trees in the living room and family room.
  — Molly Reid Sinnett, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2021
• In practice — and at big-data scale — the numbers belie those stories.
  — Brian Hochman, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• Its name belies the fact that the neighborhood is landlocked, about 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• The president’s grim mood belied what was otherwise a good day for him.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
• In addition, Hollis has a big voice that belies her age.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• But for Black residents in the 1960s, the name had long belied a dark, racist reality.
  — Randi Kaye, CNN, 17 Sep. 2023
• But facts on the ground belie many elements of that conviction.
  — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2021
• The enormity of their ordeal is belied by the film’s opening section.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 May 2024