Sentence examples for lied for a from inspiring English sources

I lied for a good friend because he asked me to".

But in his catchy phraseology — a zinger that Aaron Sorkin could have written — he summed up the audience's dramatic conundrum: how to contextualize the statements of the day's flawed central character, a man who lied for a president to whom he had long been loyal and now claims is a con man and worse.

Mr. Coleman said he lied for a variety of reasons: to obtain money, to evade pending Federal charges that he filed a false passport application, to enhance his status as a consultant on international security and terrorism and to get back at the United States Drug Enforcement Administration for dismissing him.

Then he lied, for a week, before fessing up.

"This is a man who basically lied for a living, and he continues to do that".

My mom told me some things about the trial, like how he lied for a really long time.

That was only one of several lies Brando perpetuated in "Lying for a Living".

"Lying for a living, Marlon called it," Nolte said, bent double.

Tony Kaye, the director of "American History X," had been filming the rare event, a plan hatched by Brando, to make "Lying for a Living" into an instructional DVD video to be sold through marlonbrando.com this spring.

So it was no surprise that Brando, who in rare interviews has proclaimed his craft a not very manly one, would show up in late November at an acting workshop in Los Angeles called "Lying for a Living" -- in drag.

"When you're saying something that you don't mean or refraining from saying something that you do mean, you're acting," he says, and adds, "Lying for a living, that's what acting is.