Sentence examples for kept lying from inspiring English sources

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In public the colonial secretary lied and kept lying.

We kept lying to each other, pretending that our hunger was part of the game.

"I kept lying awake worrying I would forget something, that I would forget Greenwich Village" (Page 506).

"We couldn't tell the jury that she kept lying to us but that they should believe her," the senior official said.

I was sure that thousands of Russians were smirking in recognition of the old pretending game: Putin was lying to us, we knew he was lying, he knew we knew he was lying, but he kept lying anyway, and we pretended to believe him.

While we can all agree that Lance would have been better-off not cheating at all (or at least confessing sooner), it's fairly clear that once he cheated and lied, he probably should have kept lying if he wanted to maintain his public standing.

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But as the show progresses you see that there are secrets being kept, lies being told and not everybody is who they seem to be.

"I couldn't keep lying to myself.

I can't keep lying here much longer.

But are we going to keep lying to our kids?

"I was too exhausted to keep lying," he said.

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