Sentence examples for lie quite from inspiring English sources

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"With a CB, you can't lie quite as much about who and where you are".

But the truth is quite disturbing: people lie – and lie quite spectacularly – about their personal hygiene.

If you don't want to go to any parties, you can lie quite convincingly about having a prior engagement.

As Tolstoy's fiction suggested (though he was prone to lie quite a bit himself), the lie can also eclipse the very nature of life itself.

In the dark") by declaring, "If I ever write like that, you have my permission to approach me quietly from behind and club me in the back of the head with a blunt object, repeatedly, until I lie quite still.

In sport, you tend to know when someone is seriously injured rather than merely pretending to be, because he or she tends to lie quite still, often unable to move.

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And yet my hidden nerve lies quite elsewhere.

Because of its initial cost, his scheme lies quite outside the realm of political possibility.

Britain lies quite a way down the European league table of benefits for asylum seekers.

The beginning of another, very different end lies quite far back in American history.

Sedated and lying quite naked on a Barcalounger, Hughes, Mr Hack reports, "gave the performance of his life".

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