Sentence examples for lie spread from inspiring English sources

A sheaf of architectural plans lie spread across the desk of Maher al-Batroukh.

This is a mean lie spread by small-minded people naive to think that I was their competitor".

Even before the lie spread widely — during Ms. Houston's televised funeral service in Newark, no less — the finger-pointing had begun.

The allegations were "a vile and desperate attempt at character assassination" and a "blatant and vicious lie" spread by his political enemies, he said.

The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical.

They lie spread across a valley near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, housing as many as 6,000 people in three distinct groups.

Her boys lie spread-eagled on tumbled sheets, their flushed skin bathed in the golden luminosity of summer afternoons.

The court heard that Ehnar's manager, Martin Leggatt, was forced to lie spread-eagled on the floor with a gun pointed at his head.

She pointedly looked away, as if a couple of white Westerners getting pulled from a car and being forced to lie spread-eagle in the ditch at the side of the road were an everyday occurrence or, in any event, something she had no power to stop.

It felt less uncomfortable to have my vagina examined by a gay man than to lie spread-eagled in front of a straight one.

And as the snow falls and the Christmas lights are lit, the lie spreads like a virus.