Sentence examples for a lie on from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a lie on" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear what context you are trying to use it in, as it does not form a standard expression or idiom.
Example: "He told a lie on his application form."
Alternatives: "a falsehood about" or "a deception regarding".

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But in real life there is not the lie on one side and everything that is not a lie on the other.

While the Enhancement Center is slick and sterile, one occasionally finds cramped back rooms filled with traces of former test subjects, one of whom scrawled "the cake is a lie" on the walls (a statement that would look great on a T-shirt).

The entire election campaign is based on a lie, on a fallacy.

"I can't not live with myself telling a lie on the Peelers," she wrote to the lawyer, Richard Reeve.

Either way, folklore has it that if anyone tells a lie on the bridge, it will collapse.

"Throughout the 90s and much of the noughties, we were sold a lie on an almighty scale.

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A few wounded fighters lie on mattresses.

Get a comfortable couch or cat bed so they an lay on or sleep on it.

Have a puppy lie on it's side.

Examples include a weight suspended by a spring or a brick lying on a level surface.

It is not possible for a patient to lie on a bed motionless throughout the treatment.

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