How to Use liar in a Sentence

liar

noun
  • She called him a dirty liar.
  • And so at the end of the day, he was shown as a liar to his own people.
    CBS News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • In the halls, people yelled cuss words at me and called me a liar.
    Seventeen Magazine, Seventeen, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The one who called you a liar, the one who said your wife was ugly!
    Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • He was called a virus-spreader, a job-killer, a liar and a sleaze.
    New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Israel sought to paint Tony as a liar with a sketchy past.
    Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • People have called the masseuse a liar, a tool of the government.
    Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2021
  • God must guide the hand of the just, so whoever loses is the liar.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Oct. 2021
  • For her part, Heather is pissed that Whitney called her a liar.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Only a liar would deny it, but then the job just had to be done.
    David Martin, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The e-mail story was defined by a hacker and a liar, and the press played along.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • When the president turned out to be a liar – like Richard Nixon – he was gone.
    David Lyman, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Lying tends to be rare, except in the case of a small group of frequent liars.
    Christian B. Miller, CNN, 25 June 2024
  • Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • So much of the spine of the show is based around the idea of salesmen as liars and salesmen as storytellers.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Eliminations are made based on who knows the least about the liar in their midst.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • The portrait that emerges is a pretty simple one: The guy is a liar and a dummy.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 June 2022
  • The truth-teller and the liar play on opposite sides of the same game, as Frankfurt puts it.
    Time, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Conklin was cursed by a lieutenant and a captain and called a liar who was full of it.
    Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Omar has called Trump a racist and a liar since being elected to Congress as part of the blue wave in 2018.
    Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 7 July 2020
  • Marcia Clark, who in the midst of a row during the O.J. Simpson trial called him a liar?
    Andrew Goldman, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
  • Members of the group, including Plumb, called her a liar.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Michael puts in a good effort with the ruse, but Brittany is an awful liar.
    Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 11 July 2022
  • Trump said that Biden wasn’t a smart person, while Biden called the president a liar.
    Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The most powerful person in the world ... had branded her a liar.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Cliff Gardner: The state's position was that Andy was a liar.
    Natalie Morales, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • This is the final image of Mark in the film—not a friend, or a liar, or a spy, or a terrorist, but a loss.
    Yasmin Adele Majeed, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2020
  • Since Biden dropped out of the race, Trump has called Harris a lunatic, a liar, evil and questioned her racial identity.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Usually, the riddle was a story with a mystery at the center: how did the woman get poisoned, who murdered the man in the tower, how to get a liar to confess.
    Bryan Vandyke, TIME, 28 Sep. 2024

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