7 sentences with 'lie'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lie and other words derived from it.
• « I had to lie on a waterproof rubber mat and cover myself with another, put the catheter bag on the floor where no one could step on it, and raise my legs, after sprinkling them with baby powder and putting on special socks to prevent an embolism, on hard pillows. »
• « On hot afternoons, Kipling would lie in a hammock in the shade of a sturdy oak tree while the children played around him. »
• « When he finally came back, sore-eyed and dead tired, the dog would lie down with such a joyful expression that it broke my heart to have to scold him. »
• « "Tell me that's a lie. Tell me that about anyone, but not about Arne Treholt," Melina Mercouri, Greece's Minister of Culture, commented tearfully. But, alas, it was not a lie: he had been a spy for 15 years. »
• « The importance of Greek scientific work does not lie primarily in the conclusions that Greek scientists reached, which ended up being factually wrong most of the time. »