How to Use lie to in a Sentence

lie to

verb

• The fastest way to erode that trust is to lie to your employees.
  — Jean Serra, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• The island lies to the west of the rest of the Andaman archipelago.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• That’s when Mae revealed that Sol killed their mom and had been lying to her this whole time.
  — Keisha Hatchett, TVLine, 16 July 2024
• Many of those posted in this hottest of hot zones lie to their families.
  — Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• The life lessons learned: Do not lie to handsome men seated next to you on trans-Atlantic flights.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• The worst part was how my mother used to encourage me to lie to her, to pretend how great things were.
  — Ling Ma, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• This desert region, which lies to the east of Mordor, does not factor much into The Lord of the Rings' story.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024
• Combs allegedly told Jones to lie to the police and instead say that the man was hit in a drive-by shooting.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
• Bank employees who lie to their board about the bank’s finances, to keep their jobs and the value of their stock, can be fired if they’re caught.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021
• The plaintiffs accuse CrowdStrike and Kurtz of lying to mislead investors and pump up the stock price.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• Kelly and his confidants told the family to lie to the grand jury.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
• In many cases those people aren’t wrong that the government was lying to them.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The next day may be filled with regret and multiple lies to one’s partner, but that’s hours or days later.
  — Steve Silverman, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
• The agency said smugglers often lie to migrants, claiming the border is safe to cross.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024
• Now Democrats will be armed with texts that show the network’s stars were lying to its viewers about January 6.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2023
• Kazakhstan, with a population of 20 million, lies to the north of the Caspian Sea and a small area on the eastern side, with Russia on the western side of the Sea.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• The bank wasn’t trying to pull a fast one on depositors or lie to inspectors.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
• This results in me going out without her knowledge and lying to her.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024
• Boy gets frustrated at boy’s friend, asking boy’s friend to just lie to boy when boy is clearly in a paranoid state like this.
  — Jen Kim, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
• The downtown areas of Hartford and those that lie to the west of the city show higher vaccination rates in general.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 3 June 2021
• While knocking back drinks, the two playfully lie to each other about their jobs and upbringings.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• Intentionally lying to viewers, though, that to me seemed to cross a line. GOV.
  — NBC News, 5 Mar. 2023
• Kids also outsmart their parents and sometimes lie to or disobey them.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Nearing the end of the interview, the defense attorneys told Boutros that Bradley accused her of lying to others.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
• Detectives by law are also not allowed to lie to suspects.
  — NBC News, 10 Apr. 2022
• And both could be found guilty of lying to a police officer, a high misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and as much as a $5,000 fine.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2024
• Alexander Smirnov, 43, is facing charges in connection with lying to the FBI and creating false records.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
• Miranda lies to the security guards about being free and easy after losing her phone and sneaks it in.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 29 June 2023
• Musk, the platform’s owner, had joined in, amplifying the lie to his millions of followers.
  — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 20 Nov. 2023
• Debates are notorious as a place for candidates to misrepresent, spin, and flat-out lie to cast their record and their plans in the best light.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 27 June 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024