Sentence for lying | Use lying in a sentence

Sentences for lying. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use lying in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for lying.

  • Were you lying to me, then? (8)
  • Upstairs she was lying dead. (10)
  • Upstairs Clare was lying dead. (10)
  • Lying there, he plucked at her skirts. (22)
  • Lying there he still felt a little funny. (8)
  • She used to be where Lady Grace was lying. (10)
  • Lying there, he wished me gaily good-night. (10)
  • One must not take such situations lying down. (8)
  • A slip of a crescent moon is lying on her back. (8)
  • He must have a few hundreds lying about somewhere. (12)
  • Emilia gazed at her nerveless hands lying in her lap. (10)
  • She was lying on a sofa in a loose gray cashmere gown. (8)
  • This, with the hamlet lying behind unseen, is Swanston. (2)
  • She was in a fever, lying like stone, with her brain burning. (10)
  • And did you on entering see the box produced, lying on the table? (8)
  • For the moment he filled all her heart, lying there, so helpless. (8)
  • A trawler was lying there, which had evidently been in a collision. (8)
  • The lying headline is a favorite device for misleading the reader. (16)
  • When the dish-cover was lifted, there he saw himself lying, boiled! (10)
  • Carinthia entered his room and saw that he was lying stretched restfully. (10)
  • Her warm heart could not bear the thought that Ann was lying there so cold. (8)
  • It was really like lying in the dark with a mosquito hovering above his face. (8)
  • The love whose star had caught in the hair of Sylvia, now lying there asleep. (8)
  • Lying at anchor behind the island was a crippled brig with main-topmast gone. (18)
  • In another minute he was hidden on the slope of the mountain lying toward Orta. (10)
  • A map of the thirteen Colonies and the seaboard was lying carelessly on the table. (18)
  • Some of the strollers were lying on the floor with their knapsacks under their heads. (5)
  • He drew her into the library, and there threw open a vast placard lying on the table. (10)
  • For days and days I have had a dream lying in my bosom that Milan was soon to breathe. (10)
  • My friend in the manicure came and told me about hers when I was lying in the hospital. (8)
  • Rose was lying back on the pillows of a sofa, from which they would not let him get up. (9)
  • You were lying on your face in the heather; you said it was like kissing a loved woman. (8)
  • Fugitives are subject to strange incidents; they are not vessels lying safe in harbour. (10)
  • When I first returned to consciousness, I found myself lying exactly where I had fallen. (6)
  • Yes, indeed; though a corpse were lying in this house; but Countess Alessandra is safe. (10)
  • And when Wreford saw him lying there, he began to moan and sob, but Hubert never stirred. (8)
  • And, lying awake, he hardened himself to play the part of the serene and trusting husband. (8)
  • She fingered a half-opened parcel lying there, and drew forth a little book she recognized. (10)
  • The bed was open, and I saw with regret my revolver lying patently disclosed on the blue wool. (2)
  • He hurried out, closed the chamber, and came upon little Clare lying senseless along the door. (10)
  • And, lying there in the dark, she thought of their first meeting, one Sunday morning, in Hyde Park. (8)
  • Dead leaves, red and brown and spotted yellow, fell straight around the stems of trees, lying thick. (10)
  • Elizabeth thanked him from her heart, and then walked towards the table where a few books were lying. (4)
  • After that first bout was over and she was lying half asleep in the old nursery, he happened to go up. (8)
  • Do you remember how we used to shudder together at night when we thought of people lying in the grave? (10)
  • Do you remember how we used to shudder together at night when we thought of people lying in the grave? (22)
  • Watching his friend, lying there, with that smile, and the candle-light on his face, Ashurst shuddered. (8)
  • All night long he had walked up and down in his room, while Michael had been lying on the leather sofa. (12)
  • There was nothing but the white board above the garden-gate to speak of the history lying in her heart. (22)
  • Richard had fought a duel in France with Lord Mountfalcon, and was lying wounded at a hamlet on the coast. (10)
  • He was lying unconsciously helpless, ignorant of the loving hands that now administered kindnesses unto him. (18)
  • I stood up and saw they had walked on board a steamer which was lying head up-stream, with some barges in tow. (8)
  • The glitter of the sunlight came insolently from the whiteness, and the room was filled with its lying shimmer. (12)
  • And so, dead tired, but not from directing other people, he drowses himself to early lying again in his doubtful bed. (8)
  • Hilary watched the little moonlight lady lying vigilant, affectionate, beside this perfect dog, who could not hurt her. (8)
  • The defenders had heaped all the slain who were lying near, in order, from that rampart, to fire over at their assailants. (9)
  • So her eyes spoke, and so those of the spaniel John, lying on his back, in which attitude he knew that he was hard to move. (8)
  • Lavender suddenly, for a journal had fallen from his pocket, and the sight of it lying there, out of his reach, excited him. (8)
  • Mrs. Lovell was lying back with the neglectful grace of incontestable beauty; not a line to wrinkle her smooth soft features. (10)
  • The Countess was quite aware of the efficacy of a little bit of burlesque lying to cover her retreat from any petty exposure. (10)
  • There, on the far side, lying on the floor with his arms pressed tightly round his head and his face to the wall, was Miltoun. (8)
  • It was the lying in prison under sentence of Death, and it was the prison of the Inquisition, too, where he was hourly tortured. (14)
  • He was to mix his blood with the blood of the Lincolnshire Kirbys, lying pallid under the hesitating acquittal of a divided jury. (10)
  • Sir Austin ascended the stairs, and bent his steps leisurely toward the chamber where his son was lying in the left wing of the Abbey. (10)
  • To Gyp, lying in her hot bath, those muffled strains just mounted, not quite as a tune, rather as some far-away humming of large flies. (8)
  • How far off we were from the green Devonshire coast, was one of her questions, suggestive of our old yacht-voyage lying among her dreams. (10)
  • She almost forgot the beloved of her heart in the thought that a living woman had been lying here more than two days and nights, fasting. (10)
  • And the memory assailed him of how, four years ago, she had defeated double pneumonia without having a doctor, simply by lying on her back. (8)
  • A green-edged lake of saffron touched the blue, With isles of fireless purple lying through: And Fancy on that lake to seek lost treasures sailed. (10)
  • More than once during that night the Colonel, lying on the seat opposite, awoke and saw her sitting, withdrawn into her corner, with eyes still open. (8)
  • Barto Rizzo, he said, was in the mountains still, and Beppo invoked damnation on him, as the author of those lying proclamations which had ruined Brescia. (10)

Also see sentences for: deceitful, false, falsehood, lie, reclining, resting, untruth.

Definition of lying:

  • lying, l’ing, adj. addicted to telling lies. | n. the habit of telling lies. | adv. ly’ingly.(0) | lying, l’ing, adj. being in a horizontal position. | n. ly’ing-in, the confinement of women during child-bearing | also adj._(0)

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