How to Use lie by in a Sentence

lie by

verb
  • David whistled to the dog in one clip, as the pooch lay by his head and snuggled up to him.
    — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Video shows the dog lying by itself behind a chain-link fence on the edge of the cliff.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • Friend never did own up to how long her lies by omission had been occurring.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • God himself was the one who showed Samuel how to lie by pretending to sacrifice a heifer.
    — Daniella Mestyanek Young, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
  • One kneels to check on the person who had been lying by a table, while the other stands nearby and watches.
    — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In the middle of the night, Belly finds Conrad lying by the pool.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 13 Aug. 2023
  • This will come as a shock to your friend, who apparently has never had anyone lie by omission to land a sale.
    — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • In real life, men who habitually lie by omission tend not to change.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The dog would go out to do business stare at you and poop on the concrete, then go back in and lay by the door my sister should be walking through.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • His German shepherd, Dora, lay by his side all night, whimpering.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Back at the club, Angela doesn’t waste much time, taking off her dress at lunch and lying by the pool for some sunbathing with Ainsley.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Nov. 2024
  • That informant later recanted his testimony and swore in an affidavit that he'd been paid to lie by the investigator.
    — Amber Hunt, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2023
  • All too quickly, Lesia unwittingly causes problems by dialing her aunt from a house phone at the villa, lying by saying that she’s called from a public phone booth.
    — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 20 May 2024
  • Tributes lie by a tree near which a female body was discovered in a passenger car in Ingolstadt, Germany, in August.
    — Andy Eckardt, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In ensuing years, lying by police would be outlawed in other European countries, Japan and Australia.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Prosecutors, jurors, and judges took Conley’s denial to reflect an unwillingness to testify against other cops, a lie by omission.
    — Daniel Simons, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2011
  • Over the decades, the woman recanted her testimony multiple times, revealing that she was coerced into lying by police detectives who promised her heroin.
    — Eugene Z. Bertrand, Hartford Courant, 1 July 2024
  • Khloé Kardashian sees a lie by omission about Tristan Thompson as an opportunity for a valuable teaching moment.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
  • As the poster moves the camera to show the sunset, their pup, 4-year-old Stella, is filmed lying by the shore, far in the background, spending time alone instead of socializing with the rest of her family.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • There were already a few signs of the personalities inside, including a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories lying by one bed, a feather serving as a makeshift bookmark.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • And in the last six months, scientific evidence has mounted of self-preserving behavior, deception, hacking, cheating and lying by AI, Bengio says.
    — Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 28 May 2025
  • The people of Mexico responded to that lie by depriving his party of its supermajority in Mexico’s legislative lower house.
    — Josh Jones, National Review, 11 July 2021
  • President Biden delivered a political speech filled with much hyperbole, just as all other politicians do as opposed to the congenital lying by his Republican opponent.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Because the statements came long after Mosby signed the mortgage applications, and their awareness of several investigations focusing on their taxes, prosecutors argued the couple had motive to lie by that point.
    — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Upon learning a federal agent planned to interview a Tricare beneficiary about his prescription, Myers instructed the man to lie by claiming he had been examined by a doctor before getting his prescription.
    — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2021
  • In her June 2019 motion asking for Johnson's release, Gardner said that the only eyewitness, who tied Johnson to the murder, had recanted and admitted he had been pressured to lie by investigators.
    — CBS News, 18 July 2021

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