Word Finder - lie

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The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.

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The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.

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The position of a fetus in the womb.

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A manner of lying; relative position.

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An animal's lair.

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To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

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The book lies on the table;  the snow lies on the roof;  he lies in his coffin

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To be placed or situated.

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To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.

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The paper does not lie smooth on the wall.

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Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.

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Used with with: to have sexual relations with.

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Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.

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To lodge; to sleep.

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To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.

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To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.

I can't lie to him.

Zeb was also escorted to a room--so grand and beautiful that he almost feared to sit in the chairs or lie upon the bed, lest he might dim their splendor.

Jennifer didn't lie about her father.

You'd better lie down, said the countess.

You usually lie like a bragging fisherman, so I stopped asking.

One afternoon noticing Natasha shivering with fever, Princess Mary took her to her own room and made her lie down on the bed.

She could not lie either on her face or on her side.

I have no need to lie to you.

Since the campaigns of Austerlitz and of 1807 Rostov knew by experience that men always lie when describing military exploits, as he himself had done when recounting them; besides that, he had experience enough to know that nothing happens in war at all as we can imagine or relate it.

I'll lie down at once, said Natasha.

What did you lie about?

And without knowing how this aimless lie had escaped him, he went along with resolute and triumphant steps between the French soldiers.

Carmen disentangled herself from Destiny and urged her to lie down.

Why would he need to lie when he could simply tell her that it didn't concern her?

At last, she forced herself to lie down and tried not to think of the man named Jule, whose soul still lingered.

I really don't want to lie outright to the police.

Did you lie to him?

Russia will shudder to learn of the abandonment of the city in which her greatness is centered and in which lie the ashes of your ancestors!

You could lie and tell him Humphries said it wasn't really his fault and his mother was just upset at losing a daughter.

Why did you lie for that bitch?

I regretted the words as soon as I'd spoken; suggesting a lie to cover a larger one.

Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable.

Governments in the past could lie with impunity.

Running the lie detector, no doubt.

I said I did not want you to lie about it.

The grey eyes were beseeching, but Katie couldn't manage anything verbal let alone a lie to placate the driver.

I need to ask you something, and if you lie to me, we.re done.

Her hair was drawn back severely into a bun and she had black eyes that could render a lie detector machine obsolete.

Julie says I should just lie and say I don't know him and have no idea who he is.

She couldn't think of a lie fast enough.

Darkyn's lie detector skill gave Deidre a tingling at the base of her skull that she took to be a red flag.

She wasn't certain what was wrong with her, but she didn't want to lie to Andre.

Bianca's new world was tiny and white, the porcelain toilet the only chair and the tub the only place long enough for her to lie down.

Yes, it is a tomb in which hope, joy and the power of acting nobly lie buried.

Alex wouldn't lie, but if he was given enough time to think about it, he could certainly evade the issue.

If the deal was over, and she was here, what did she need to lie about?

Lie still, stay like that then, I won't touch you.

He had yet to lie to her, and she didn't think he was now.

I wouldn't lie to you, Carmen - not intentionally, anyway.

Only she wasn't going to lie down and give up like her mother.

He could lie and tell them he was a police officer or sheriff and maybe squeeze some tidbit of information about recently released mom Patsy, but surely Fitzgerald would find out and tank his election ambitions, if those aspirations weren't already six feet under.

She said she could lie down in her grave peacefully if that were accomplished.

She didn't expect it; she expected him to lie rather than point out the flaws in her desperate logic.

At the basis of the works of all the modern historians from Gibbon to Buckle, despite their seeming disagreements and the apparent novelty of their outlooks, lie those two old, unavoidable assumptions.

At least that part wasn't a lie.

It wasn't a lie.

Leaning forward, she relinquished the blanket and urged him to lie down on the couch.

I ignored her question rather than lie.

Even the one where you planned to lie to me about Wynn healing Selyn.

He never could lie to Jake Weller.