Sentence examples for a small lie from inspiring English sources

"It starts with a small lie," he said.

A small lie wouldn't have done any harm.

As though to confirm it, here's Easy A, a sparkling moral tale about a small lie that ramifies out of control.

They mimic, in the gentlest way, what can happen during police questioning: a small lie, told to shake loose the truth, rattles around in a suspect's imagination and takes root.

Mr Kolesov said he could not take part in such a trial, because a small lie leads to a bigger one.After a few days of tense silence, the court reopened the case to the public.

(In "Mein Kampf," Hitler had written that most people "are more easily victimized by a large than by a small lie, since they sometimes tell petty lies themselves but would be ashamed to tell big ones").

So we have Horowitz's big lie, buttressed by a smaller lie, but a very important one that helps convince right-wing listeners about the truth of the big one.

And indeed, all other system algebras are ruled out as the subalgebras acting on each of the two matrix blocks would have a smaller Lie-algebra dimension than su ( 2 d − 1 ).

In northwestern New York, situated near a small lake, lies Lily Dale, the birthplace of "Modern Spiritualism," aka the belief that we are able to communicate with the dead.

Outside the fortifications, on a hillside over a small ravine, lie the enchanting Generalife gardens.

Atop a small bluff lie the dilapidated remains of an abandoned fish cannery, and below is a vast, swampy delta.