How to Use belie in a Sentence

belie

verb

• Their actions belie their claim to be innocent.
• So, the premise of the program, school choice, is belied by reality.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
• But his affable nature belies the pressure of this job.
  — Joe Sills, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Nadal did have a knack for swatting down on-court obstacles with muscle and grit: his snarl belied an inner calm that, more often than not, triumphed.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
• But that average belies a wide spectrum: a third of women took no formal time off at all, and 16 percent took only one to four weeks.
  — Julianne Pepitone, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2019
• Like his many pasta-making endeavors, the finished product is elegant and spare, belying hours of careful effort.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• But the steady flow of briny bivalves emerging from the facility behind Chapin Beach belies the reality for this vulnerable species.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• This relative calm belies the chaos that erupted over the past week as thousands protested across the country against government corruption, lack of basic services and growing unemployment.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 9 Oct. 2019
• An expression of utter tranquility belies any discomfort.
  — Alexei Koseff, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• 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
• At this point, all teams have played between 43 and 49 games, but the numbers belie the tumult.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
• 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
• But do their actions in the White House and on Capitol Hill confirm or belie it?
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 19 Oct. 2021
• 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 all of the freaks’ requests that Lindsay stay with Nick belie that denial, don’t they?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2021
• The tearing down of posters of hostages kidnapped by Hamas belies reason.
  — Marc Levine, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Their light belies their size, given that the particles range from the size of sand grains to boulders.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024