How to Use lie to in a Sentence
lie to
verb-
The fastest way to erode that trust is to lie to your employees.
— Jean Serra, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022 -
When Rome lies to Sol about the vote being on Aysha, Sol sees right through it.
— Nick Caruso, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2024 -
The island lies to the west of the rest of the Andaman archipelago.
— Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024 -
There need to be some people in Russia who don’t lie to them.
— Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 -
That’s when Mae revealed that Sol killed their mom and had been lying to her this whole time.
— Keisha Hatchett, TVLine, 16 July 2024 -
Many of those posted in this hottest of hot zones lie to their families.
— Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023 -
The life lessons learned: Do not lie to handsome men seated next to you on trans-Atlantic flights.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024 -
The worst part was how my mother used to encourage me to lie to her, to pretend how great things were.
— Ling Ma, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 -
This desert region, which lies to the east of Mordor, does not factor much into The Lord of the Rings' story.
— Christian Holub, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024 -
Combs allegedly told Jones to lie to the police and instead say that the man was hit in a drive-by shooting.
— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024 -
Bank employees who lie to their board about the bank’s finances, to keep their jobs and the value of their stock, can be fired if they’re caught.
— Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021 -
As a leader, hearing your employees feel the need to lie to you is a hard pill to swallow, there’s no way around that.
— Liz Elting, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024 -
The richest man in the world instead used his megaphone to lie to disaster victims, telling them that help was not on the way.
— Lorraine Ali, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024 -
The plaintiffs accuse CrowdStrike and Kurtz of lying to mislead investors and pump up the stock price.
— Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024 -
Kelly and his confidants told the family to lie to the grand jury.
— Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022 -
In many cases those people aren’t wrong that the government was lying to them.
— Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023 -
The next day may be filled with regret and multiple lies to one’s partner, but that’s hours or days later.
— Steve Silverman, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024 -
The agency said smugglers often lie to migrants, claiming the border is safe to cross.
— Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024 -
Now Democrats will be armed with texts that show the network’s stars were lying to its viewers about January 6.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2023 -
Kazakhstan, with a population of 20 million, lies to the north of the Caspian Sea and a small area on the eastern side, with Russia on the western side of the Sea.
— Ian Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024 -
The bank wasn’t trying to pull a fast one on depositors or lie to inspectors.
— The Editors, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023 -
This results in me going out without her knowledge and lying to her.
— Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024 -
Boy gets frustrated at boy’s friend, asking boy’s friend to just lie to boy when boy is clearly in a paranoid state like this.
— Jen Kim, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023 -
The downtown areas of Hartford and those that lie to the west of the city show higher vaccination rates in general.
— Dave Altimari, courant.com, 3 June 2021 -
While knocking back drinks, the two playfully lie to each other about their jobs and upbringings.
— Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Intentionally lying to viewers, though, that to me seemed to cross a line. GOV.
— NBC News, 5 Mar. 2023 -
Kids also outsmart their parents and sometimes lie to or disobey them.
— Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023 -
Nearing the end of the interview, the defense attorneys told Boutros that Bradley accused her of lying to others.
— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024 -
Detectives by law are also not allowed to lie to suspects.
— NBC News, 10 Apr. 2022 -
To make matters worse, the federal government is now using these lies to prosecute my son.
— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
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