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Example sentences for "tell lies"

  • When I was a little lad I used to tell lies!

  • It was like you to do it, and I love you for it, though it's never right to tell lies, even for a friend.

  • I know what I am saying and don't tell lies.

  • I can't tell lies," answered Raissa, and even flung up her hands.

  • There is no need to tell lies," observed David, "but there is no need to kill yourself, either.

  • To teach you not to tell lies," answered Sibyl.

  • I didn't know that you was stupid, but you do tell lies.

  • It's wicked for good people to tell lies, isn't it?

  • Or, if she was firm not to tell lies, would it not somehow involve a breaking of her promise to Nicholas?

  • But the difficulty is, that in telling the second person about the first person, I may either have to tell lies, or disclose a secret about a third person, and that is a secret I have promised not to tell.

  • It is a very ungentlemanly thing to tell lies.

  • I do not say that; I say that to tell lies is ungentlemanly?

  • The only limitation to your ability that I ever discovered is your utter inability to tell lies.

  • Do you know where little boys who tell lies go to, Tommy?

  • We say that it is wrong to murder, to steal, to tell lies, and that it is right to take care of our families.

  • My lady alive, I should say--sure a little thing like me'd tell lies as fast as a hen'd pick peas!

  • I don't tell lies," said Christian, flitting like a gnat to the open window of the schoolroom.

  • As she told John, when the formal inquisition had passed through acrid dispute to torture, she didn't tell lies.

  • But you know it is wicked to tell lies; don't you, dear?

  • We are even told that certain savages are too stupid or too ignorant to tell lies.

  • It is interesting in this case to note that the child maintained that she belonged to a church, which made it impossible for her to tell lies.

  • If they want to leave me alone, they can get the truth, but when one is deceived one has to tell lies sometimes.

  • She used to make me tell lies to my father.

  • But I don't tell lies when I testify, Judge Hoyt," said the boy, a disappointed look on his freckled face.

  • After now, I'm only goin' to tell lies when me work requires it.

  • He told lies--in fact, he preferred to tell lies; truth had no charm for him.

  • Diavolo repeated; "that's do I tell lies, isn't it?

  • I suppose, grandpapa," she pursued, "when people get old they have nothing to tell lies about.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tell lies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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