lie to

verb

lay to; lain to; lying to; lies to

intransitive verb

of a ship

: to stay stationary with head to windward

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Federal prosecutors said Tomczak, who is charged with lying to investigators about the scheme, eventually became worried about the volume of counseling work Epps was billing in his name. —

Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2025 This gives the lie to the election season pretense that only those guilty of violent nonimmigration crimes would be targeted for deportation. —

Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025 Some, like Andrew Garfield and Dafne Keen, talked about lying to reporters about their involvement in various projects. —

Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025 The lifestyle guru served five months at a Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia after she was found guilty in 2004 of obstructing justice and lying to the FBI about the ImClone stock trading case. —

Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for lie to