Sentence examples for innocent of lying from inspiring English sources

He later said he was innocent of lying to federal agents, too, and would soon appeal.

Strangely the myth of the feral child coexists with the powerful counter-myth of the innocent child who is incapable of lying or wrong-doing.

But, Shephard asks, should the first British troops have been so innocent of what lay in store for them?

Mark Twain in "Huckleberry Finn" and nearly a century later, J.D. Salinger in "The Catcher in the Rye" invented the confessions of young innocents who understand lying to others but haven't yet discovered the advantages of lying to themselves.

A village apparently surrounded by Syrian forces... the bodies of innocent civilians lying there... they were shot... some allegedly burned or slashed with knives.

Innocent of all that lay before them, the luminaries gathering at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics were in a whimsical mood.

Thousands of innocents lie dead in the wreckage of the World Trade Centre; hundreds more seem likely to have perished at the Pentagon and in a crashed airliner in Pennsylvania.

Seemingly innocent objects lie around devoid of meaning and then explode unexpectedly, cutting me off at the knees because of some connection of which I was only dimly aware: a can of the diet soda that he used to drink; an old, strangely-shaped winter hat; the cleaning solution that smells of hospice.

The letter was pathetic, inconsequential, a child's report on a day out in Nice - "So you thought of us, dear St Crumpet, and we too thought so much of you" - but in its innocent prattle lay the source of Ruskin's pain, and all that followed from it.

No innocent civilians lay in pools of blood.

The seemingly innocent mistakes lay at the heart of a scandal which has tarnished cricket's reputation.