Sentence examples for tiny lie from inspiring English sources

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The driver, a guy who said he grew up in Havana, told a tiny lie, or a half lie.

If lying big to a big corporation provokes this kind of debate, who would ever care about such a little tiny lie, quickly forgotten, barely a blip in the day?

A husband sets off the castration of his marriage with a tiny lie told in a cheese shop queue, a junior doctor finally bows to his homosexuality when he breathes yes, ("a hot little word", Ms Kennedy calls it) to an older colleague.

Is it a tiny lie the person can get over, or is it something that goes to the heart of trust in your relationship that, once broken, is unlikely to be mended?

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Steinmeyer shows that every refinement matters, that good conjuring is not so much a matter of mechanics as "a collection of tiny lies, in words and deeds, that are stacked and arranged ingeniously to form the battlement for an illusion.

The tiny lies we tell often can come back to haunt us". The audience's acute awareness of how those tiny lies -- that so often escalate -- fit into everyday life is probably what makes the untarnished hero so suspect and what makes the antihero feel more realistic.

When it comes to the tiny lies we tell to spare feelings, you make the call.

But as Ulysses pacts go, it's a weak one: when it comes down to it, how many business owners are willing to shut the doors rather than tell one teeny-tiny lie on their transparency reports?

The seven tiny Nanusa Islands lie northeast of Karakelong.

These tiny villages lie in what might be called the Salt Belt of Brittany -- the area that was highly profitable in the Middle Ages when this "white gold" was as valuable as coal was in the 19th century or as oil is today.

In this tiny cemetery lie the dead of all our country's wars, and somehow they are all comrades when those clear, heartbreaking notes float on the air bidding them all 'Go to sleep, go to sleep.' " A student of American history and, in particular, its wars, Mr. Ketchum wrote more than a dozen books, six of which focused on the American Revolution.

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