How to Use lie to in a Sentence

lie to

verb
  • And don’t let the mind lie to the eyes.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s a song about lying to you.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Your body, your skin, your brain—they’re not lying to you.
    — Ginger Gentile, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The fastest way to erode that trust is to lie to your employees.
    — Jean Serra, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But my whole point is that Mitch could also be lying to them.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • There need to be some people in Russia who don’t lie to them.
    — Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Many of those posted in this hottest of hot zones lie to their families.
    — Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Can these random strangers in a bar, whose friend very well could be lying to them, be trusted?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Don't believe what your eyes are telling you because the media is lying to you.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But if your structure isn’t designed, your tax return is lying to you.
    — Terry Lamb, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Or your team member may tell a self-serving lie to avoid getting blamed for a delay on a project.
    — Harvard Business Review, 6 June 2025
  • The worst part was how my mother used to encourage me to lie to her, to pretend how great things were.
    — Ling Ma, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • Burr is also shown with Pine, who accuses her of lying to him.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This results in me going out without her knowledge and lying to her.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024
  • That’s when Mae revealed that Sol killed their mom and had been lying to her this whole time.
    — Keisha Hatchett, TVLine, 16 July 2024
  • Watch Brown and Partridge attempt to lie to each other in the video above.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
  • In many cases those people aren’t wrong that the government was lying to them.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Michelle’s lying to herself and to other people about a number of things.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
  • The next day may be filled with regret and multiple lies to one’s partner, but that’s hours or days later.
    — Steve Silverman, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
  • When Rome lies to Sol about the vote being on Aysha, Sol sees right through it.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The bank wasn’t trying to pull a fast one on depositors or lie to inspectors.
    — The Editors, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Kelly and his confidants told the family to lie to the grand jury.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The island lies to the west of the rest of the Andaman archipelago.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • As a leader, hearing your employees feel the need to lie to you is a hard pill to swallow, there’s no way around that.
    — Liz Elting, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The agency said smugglers often lie to migrants, claiming the border is safe to cross.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024
  • Because going my own way has led me to get involved with these men who lie to me or fall short of my expectations.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 27 July 2025
  • While knocking back drinks, the two playfully lie to each other about their jobs and upbringings.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Boy gets frustrated at boy’s friend, asking boy’s friend to just lie to boy when boy is clearly in a paranoid state like this.
    — Jen Kim, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Comey pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to Congress during a court hearing this week.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This would not be the first NFL opening weekend to stare fans dead in the eye and lie to them.
    — Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025

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