How to Use belie in a Sentence

belie

verb
  • Their actions belie their claim to be innocent.
  • Agnes’ tiny stature belied her big heart.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • That belies the strength of its results.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 2 May 2026
  • Tatis ran the bases with a speed that belied his 6-foot-3 frame.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Her ability to find open faces and carve across the wave belied her age.
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Johnson tends to play the game with a chip on his shoulder that belies his young age.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • But under the hood, there’s a rich set of metrics, some of which belie the price point.
    — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2020
  • But his football knowledge belies his age.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the small size belies its importance.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • And yet, the lion’s share of the songs come with sticky hooks that build and progress in a way that belies their length.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But that statement belied the last five years of Perez’s tenure.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 17 June 2019
  • But the very structure of the law belied the state’s argument.
    — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • That’s a limited view, and one that is once again belied by the size of the merger.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Her colorful outfit and warm smile belied a heavy heart.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
  • His youthful looks belie his toughness.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The size of the ensemble also belies its strength.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But the strength of this team is that its young players already have wise heads that belie their tender years.
    — John Leicester, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • Yet the mood belied no indication that the club was about to go under.
    — Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 14 May 2018
  • This is a corrupt prosecution that belies any sense of the facts or the law.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The audio has a fullness and bass response that belies the speaker size.
    — Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But this immense beauty belies the peril here.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Voronkov, whose hands belie his size, made a nifty move to get Shesterkin lunging and missing at the puck.
    — Aaron Portzline, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The city’s suburbs have a peaceful veneer that belies the tensions on the ground.
    — Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Its miniscule size belies an outsized global role.
    — Vivienne Walt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But the essence of Biden’s argument is belied by the public record.
    — NBC News, 28 June 2019
  • The tearing down of posters of hostages kidnapped by Hamas belies reason.
    — Marc Levine, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
  • However, those numbers belie the fact that their bullpen did the heavy lifting.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Their light belies their size, given that the particles range from the size of sand grains to boulders.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • That gives the car a charming, old-fashioned feel that belies the modern tech within.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2026
  • So, the premise of the program, school choice, is belied by reality.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024

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