Sentence examples for meaning lying from inspiring English sources
But "perjury" is a much harsher word, meaning "lying under oath".
Beginning with the autobiographical Nick Adams stories in his first book, 1925's In Our Time, his fiction is characterised by pared-down prose, with symbolic meaning lying beneath the surface.
In a country where freedom is a word with little meaning, lying becomes a habit.
Those were the moments in which meaning lay.
Perhaps this is because their real meaning lies elsewhere.
(The meaning lies somewhere between "accept" and "take on").
We like love, we love love, but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness.
The verb's e-mail meaning lies halfway between "to buzz" and "to noodge".
The history of its meaning lies in the Greek comic figure Eiron, who repeatedly relies upon his wit to prevail over his bumptious counterpart.
They seemed so much heavier than they should have been, as if that were where the true burden of his life's meaning lay.
Like a poem whose meaning lies in the space between the lines, the fault's message lies in the stillness between the earthquakes.
