Sentence examples for a sort of lying from inspiring English sources

Holroyd warns fellow biographers against what Daniel Defoe called "a sort of lying that makes a great hole in the heart at which, by degrees, the habit of lying enters in".

"As long as I quite unashamedly get drunk, have sex and write books like 'A Single Man,' " he writes, "I simply cannot appear before people as a sort of lay minister".

A more nuanced ethical issue involves the potential use of neuroimaging as a sort of lie detector to expose malingerers or increase payouts in injury-compensation suits.

Mr. Oates grew to believe that these speech reversals contained subconscious messages, and since then he has advocated their use in therapy and investigation (where they serve as a sort of lie detector test).

"They're cycling in what's called a recumbent position, where the rider is sort of lying down on his back".

You could even call it lying - the sort of lying that involves stretching an unlikely possibility into fact.

"I certainly did not expect the velocity of schadenfreude -- meaning people sort of lying in wait for you to fail, or make a mistake," Oprah told ABC News.

When the Pulitzer news came, "I was sort of lying low," he said.

So to wonk him again I had to like shove her back, and unfortunately she slipped, and down she went, and she's sort of lying there, skirt hiked up — and he's mad! Mad!

Unfortunately, this sort of lying isn't as easy as it used to be.

"All this stuff was sort of lying there because nobody had the time or the energy or the money to do anything about it," McBurney said.