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How do you use Lies in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Lies in a sentence

Related words

Lies | Lie | Liesl | Lieser | Liese | Lieshout | Liess | Liesse

Lies meaning

plural of lie

Using Lies

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of lie
  • In the example corpus, lies often appears in combinations such as: lies in, of lies, lies and.

Context around Lies

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
  • Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations

Often before:

wild 2× damned 1× leader 1× white 1× half 1× upon 1× prioritizes 1× 000 1× president 1×

Often after:

damned 1× yeah 1× equivocations 1× spoken 1× allows 1× goes 1× upon 1× weren 1× constantly 1× manufactured 1×

Sentence patterns with Lies

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

lies lies lies yeah 2× 20 000 lies 1× and half lies spoken that 1× and more lies 1× arbitrary as lies and support 1× as wild lies to hedge 1× based on lies and fear 1× believe the lies 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

as wild lies 1× boak s lies 1× but jurors in 1× donald trump s 1× he lies with 1× he prioritizes lies 1×

Common sentence endings:

20 000 lies 1× and more lies 1× anything he says 1× believe the lies 1× believe their lies 1× every single time 1×

Words around Lies

Just before it in the word index:

lier 2 liens 36 lienhard 3 lienert 7 liendo 7 lien 108

Just after it in the word index:

liese 3 lieser 4 lieshout 3 liesl 34 liess 2 liesse 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

organisation 4.082 louis 4.081 regardless 4.081 useful 4.079 boosted 4.077 courts 4.074

Corpus analysis for Lies

  • In this selection, "lies" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, wild, damned, leader, damned, yeah and equivocations stand out and add context to how "lies" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include lies lies lies yeah and 20 000 lies. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "lies" sits close to words such as organisation, louis and regardless, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with lies

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Lies, lies, lies, yeah! (4 words)

They have made lies look like the truth and the truth like lies. (13 words)

The Lasso of Lies allows its holders to make the world believe their lies. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

I don’t mean to suggest that the lies of politicians reach as deeply as the violation of trust in a marriage, but the cost of such lies can be just as damaging to a country and its economy – recovery from which can be just as difficult. (47 words)

Israel neither investigates itself nor allows anyone else to investigate it and lies all the time; Lies that are repeatedly exposed and yet it's still given the benefit of the doubt by major organizations and media every single time. (40 words)

That combined with the fact that this president lies constantly, and indiscriminately, and is currently clinging to his lies about his efforts to extort the president of Ukraine, and it’s hard to believe anything he says. (37 words)

Question examples

The fear and lies manufactured by the state machinery sometimes seem more realistic than life, how do we break out of a reality based on lies and fear? (28 words)

Exclamation examples

Lies, lies, lies, yeah! (4 words)

Example sentences (20)

It’s all lies on top of lies — just mountains of lies, including calling authentic news ‘fake news’, and calling their own fake news ‘truth’.

It has been said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

What evidence do you have that this is a “Hoax”? please tell I’m waiting to be amazed with what lie you will spin just like your leader, lies, lies, and more lies.

Lies, lies, lies, yeah!

Boak's lies were exposed by an online group of former soldiers who hunt down fake soldiers online to shame them for their lies on Facebook.

It starts in all the little “white lies,” equivocations, reservations, half-truths unspoken and half-lies spoken that precede full-blown perjury.

The Lasso of Lies allows its holders to make the world believe their lies.

What is allowed and not at JT is quite arbitrary, as lies and support for lies goes on and on, with a force of the pro Trump more constantly over posted than the truth seekers.

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But jurors in court would never hear those lies because witnesses wouldn’t repeat the lies under oath for fear of exposure and punishment.

Israel neither investigates itself nor allows anyone else to investigate it and lies all the time; Lies that are repeatedly exposed and yet it's still given the benefit of the doubt by major organizations and media every single time.

After all, some of you stood with me as we fed you lies upon lies that the PPP bribed everybody and rigged the elections.

As wild lies to hedge against earlier wild lies, this wasn’t a terrible last-ditch effort.

Donald Trump’s lies weren’t just lies but wild made up bullshit, like ballots were found in a river with his name on them.

He lies with deafening frequency, and labels anyone who questions those lies as a liar, or worse.

He prioritizes lies and narrative in his demagoguery of coming up on 20,000 lies.

That combined with the fact that this president lies constantly, and indiscriminately, and is currently clinging to his lies about his efforts to extort the president of Ukraine, and it’s hard to believe anything he says.

The fear and lies manufactured by the state machinery sometimes seem more realistic than life, how do we break out of a reality based on lies and fear?

They have made lies look like the truth and the truth like lies.

I don’t mean to suggest that the lies of politicians reach as deeply as the violation of trust in a marriage, but the cost of such lies can be just as damaging to a country and its economy – recovery from which can be just as difficult.

Television Programming is their best mind control - keep repeating the lies and everyone eventually believe the lies.

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Common combinations with lies

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "lies" in a sentence?
An example: "It’s all lies on top of lies — just mountains of lies, including calling authentic news ‘fake news’, and calling their own fake news ‘truth’." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "lies" from authentic English texts.
What does "lies" mean?
Lies means: plural of lie
How many example sentences with "lies" are there?
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