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How to use the word lying in a Sentence?

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Who or what are you sacrificing in order to achieve success? Success at the expense of others can be easy. Can you conduct your business without lying, hiding or harming others?

Loren Weisman

added by weismanloren
18 days ago

I do know she was in the hallway by herself. There was a confrontation, I’m sure. You can tell the way she is lying in the hallway.

Brink Fidler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do know she was in the hallway by herself. There was a confrontation, I’m sure. You can tell the way she is lying in the hallway. she understood the severity of the topic and the severity of the teachers needing to have the knowledge of what to do in that situation.

Brink Fidler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re lying on the floor, it is very easy for us to have a rebound.

Ringo Choi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The one thing you can clearly take away from this was, he had been lying to a lot of people that he loved for a long time, and so he had obviously gotten to be pretty good at it, if he went in there and they believed him, then he would have likely been found not guilty. But once they decide that he’s willing to put himself out there and they don’t believe him, that’s kind of a tough hill to get over.

Bill Nettles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It turned out that the majority of them don’t have another psychological disorder. And so it seems like lying is their principal problem.

Christian Hart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’s not the first politician, unfortunately, to make it to Congress to lie, but, look, George Santos was duly elected by the people. He’s going to be under strict ethics investigation, not necessarily for lying, but for his campaign finance potential violations. So I think that Santos is being examined thoroughly.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would be lying if I told you I was unfazed.

Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Half of this body is not even going to be here, and they’re lying, they’re lying on forms saying that they’re voting by proxy for COVID, and it’s a lie.

Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

added by Normando
1 year ago

He's spent his campaign lying about my record on crime, i'm a Democrat that I am running on my record on crime. You know, I ran for mayor of my community out in Western Pennsylvania to confront gun violence. It's always been a very deep, personal issue for me. … Working with the police, funding the police, and working with the community, we created the kind of relationship that was successful that we went more than five and a half years without any murder loss in my community — never done before or since during my time as mayor before I became lieutenant governor.

John Fetterman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We released border security statistics every month, because the American people deserve to know the realities of the complex and vast threats we face from outside our borders. So now, we have the Biden administration that’s not only handed operational control of our southern border to the cartels who are pushing drugs, criminals and potential terrorists into the U.S., but they continue to lie and cover it up! If they don’t come clean by Tuesday, we will, so now, we have a Biden Administration that's not only put a neon sign on our southern border welcoming terrorists and harboring human traffickers, but they're now lying about it.

Mark Morgan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is not about health, this is about honesty, it's either John Fetterman is physically capable of debating and is not debating because he doesn't want to own the statements that he's made, the radical left statements that he's made about so many issues, or he's lying about his health.

Mehmet Oz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are a lot of candidates out there feeling their oats and boasting,' I'm running no matter what. I don't care what Donald Trump says.' Anyone who says that is lying, that's an idiotic statement for someone to make who's actually thinking about running.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

John Fetterman has been ducking, dodging these debates, which is insulting to the voters of Pennsylvania, and he has to own the reasons for his desire to avoid a debate with me. Either he's healthy, which he says he is, and doesn't want to answer for his radical positions in past statements, or he's lying about his health.

Mehmet Oz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is incredibly deceptive. If you can only try to win by lying to your future constituents, it’s kind of sad, right? and I just wish that Alan would not think about Alan for a change … unfortunately, some people are just very selfish.

Mark Pocan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our victim here is lying on the ground in the basketball court on his clothes, he states he felt a punch in his side.

Detectives James Essig

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Don't forget relationships. Are you having more disagreements ? Are people in your life expressing concern or noting that you're different ? Hiding your drinking, or lying about it, these too are concerning behaviors.

Leena Mittal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you didn’t tell your friends, you’re lying. If you did tell your friends, it’s part of the hoax.

Ben Rottenborn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For a long time I've thought I would have to hide my truth because I wanted to be, and now I am, a professional footballer, i asked Jake Daniels if I should wait until I've retired to come out. No other player in the professional game here is out. However, I knew that would lead to a long time of lying and not being able to be Jake Daniels or lead the life that I want to.

Jake Daniels

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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Talesa chartrand

added by lilbabyteaze
1 year ago

They took away a new harvester, which was recently delivered to us. They took away the sowing complex, a large and expensive machine. And they overturned one of the tractors, driving around drunk. Now it's lying in a ditch.

Vasiliy Tsvigun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I was a Kid, I used to think Adults were unfair too. Yet here I am, just another lying grown-up.

Kiryu Kazuma

added by Moro-Gajima
2 years ago

At this particular moment, these peace negotiations are far from real negotiations, definitely, I think that Putin is using this as a smokescreen, buying time to regroup... and sending false, lying messages to the whole world.

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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