Sentence examples for means lying from inspiring English sources

If you remember the root "cumbere," you may guess the meaning of words like "recumbent" (which means "lying down or reclining").

The word means "lying in a plane; two-dimensional".

To some people, vacationing means lying inert on a beach, drenched in coconut oil, tropical drink in hand.

Let me quote Kozinski at length: Saints may always tell the truth, but for mortals living means lying.

(Or, as Joffrey's mother, Cersei, puts it, kinghood means "lying on a bed of weeds, ripping them out one by one, before they strangle you in your sleep").

For me, the strongest of these notions is that it's hard to take time off if it means lying sleepless in your hammock, picturing some whiz-kid "Art of War" type assuming your duties back at headquarters.

She means lie about age.

We then evaluated in what percentile human means lie within the overall distribution of animal means.

This simply means lie down somewhere flat and comfortable.

BUT, if they don't get it unless you lay it out hard then by all means, lay it on hard.

I'm partial to a culture that uses the phrase "telling a story" to mean "lying".