Sentence examples for terrible lie from inspiring English sources

Human beings are terrible lie detectors.

Of course this is a terrible lie.

He had a terrible lie, but he thought he could punch it into the fairway.

(To quote the lyrics of "Terrible Lie," that clerihew owes us a great big apology).

Bradley's approach did find the bunker, a terrible lie with the ball submerged almost an inch deep in the sand.

Sorenstam missed the fairway on her tee shot, and her ball settled into a terrible lie in deep rough.

A lyric from the song "Some Nights" includes the phrase "some terrible nights," not "some terrible lies".

So this is a Britain in which the populace are literally fed terrible lies by unaccountable wardens of social stability.

Megan McArdle: Now that Obama's dog has won the War on Christmas, or something, it's time to get down to a war that really matters: the war on terrible, lying infographics, which have become endemic in the blogosphere, and constantly threaten to break out into epidemic or even pandemic status.

But now that we know of the misery of Mao's Cultural Revolution, should we not be taking a dim view of the American hippies who so naively and selfishly thought the worst, every time, of their own country while accepting terrible lies about Red China?

And told terrible lies.