white liein a sentence
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I told a white lie to bolster her battered ego.
white lie = an unimportant lie told to be helpful
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When she takes a vacation from work, she tells a white lie on her email autoreply. She says she'll be gone a day longer than she will really be gone, so she has a day to clean out her inbox.
white lie = unimportant lie
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"So you lied," I said.
"A white lie, but yes. Sorry," she said, trying to smile, but when I didn't smile back, she turned around in her seat and faced forward. (source)white lie = an unimportant lie (told to be helpful)
- Later, I found out that your father had told you a white lie.† (source)
- I wondered if Lauren was telling a white lie to stick up for me, or if she was just too embarrassed to tell the truth.† (source)
- This is called a white lie.† (source)
- The white lie surprised Langdon.† (source)
- He comforts her with a little white lie.† (source)
- Telling a white lie was something she'd never before given me permission to do.† (source)
- She did have a photo of him, and once she realized she did, and that she could tell Annie this, and be telling the truth without telling all of it, and that this photo, along with the white lie of knowing his actual last name, would allow her to continue with this man, Kalden, who very well might be a danger to the Circle, she knew she would use this second lie with Annie, and it would buy her more time—more time to rise and fall on Kalden, while trying to ascertain exactly who he was…† (source)
- Indeed, it seems to me that my odd conduct can be very plausibly explained in terms of my wish to avoid any possibility of hearing any further such nonsense concerning his lordship; that is to say, I have chosen to tell white lies in both instances as the simplest means of avoiding unpleasantness.† (source)
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- Though I suppose it isn't the first lie I've told; but as Mary Whitney used to say, a little white lie such as the angels tell is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.† (source)
- She tilted her head back and forth, as if caught in a white lie.† (source)
- Rich wants you to know these are your instruments to play as often and as long as you please," I tell him, surprised by how easily the white lie comes.† (source)
- Only a white lie, my dear Count.† (source)
- The little white lies I told on a daily basis, the things I kept in, each time I was not totally honest-I was aware of every one now.† (source)
- … So tell him a white lie.† (source)
- It wasn't that far so I decided to walk, and while I did I imagined rooms all over the city that housed archives no one has ever heard of, like last words, white lies, and false descendants of Catherine the Great.† (source)
- White lies were easy enough, but anything bigger and I was screwed.† (source)
- There have been little white lies, of coursetelling him I don't mind his coming home late; pretending to enjoy a bedroom encounter when in fact it repulsed me; defending some action of his to his face when behind his back I believe he handled it incorrectly-but never a lie of this magnitude!† (source)
- But there are no white lies, there is only the blackness of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.† (source)
- So he'd told a little white lie to the rabbi this morning about how she'd converted and how they were raising their boys in the Jewish faith.† (source)
- "It's just a white lie," Andrew elaborates.† (source)
- She has no history of criminal behavior, no drug or alcohol use, no history of psychological problems"—a white lie—"and she seems very gentle.† (source)
- Gospodin Selene is on another call" whereupon you might hear sound of W.C., followed by running water and know that she had told little white lie.† (source)
- 'What we call in English a little white lie that doesn't hurt anybody.† (source)
- It was only a white lie.† (source)
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"You told me it was an IQ test," I said.
"I know, well, that was a white lie," she answered. "It was a test you needed to take to get into the school." (source)
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When my girlfriend noticed my glance linger on another pretty girl, I told her a white lie. I said that I was thinking that the girl's outfit would look good on her.
white lie = an unimportant lie told to be tactful
- And I said, "He told me the number," which was another white lie.† (source)
- This is where I get the bold idea to bring him in on a white lie.† (source)
- And I said a white lie because I knew that Father didn't want me to be a detective.† (source)
- A white lie.† (source)
- Even if you have to tell a white lie and say we didn't go to Central, we have to keep this our secret."† (source)
- A white lie is not a lie at all.† (source)
- Which was another white lie.† (source)
- And this was a white lie.† (source)
- This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, "What do you want to do today?" you say, "I want to do painting with Mrs. Peters," but you don't say, "I want to have my lunch and I want to go to the toilet and I want to go home after school and I want to play with Toby and I want to have my supper and I want to play on my computer and I want to go to bed."† (source)
- But there are no white lies, there is only the blackness of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.† (source)
- He'd been on my mind a lot that weekend, if only because I was suddenly aware of every little white lie I told, from the "Fine" I replied when my dad asked me how school was on Friday to how I'd nodded when my mom asked me the night before if I was excited about getting back to the Models.† (source)
- She thought that no man of the outer world would have said this to her at this moment-she thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy-she felt a stab of revulsion against that code, suddenly seeing its full ugliness for the first timeshe felt an enormous pride for the tight, clean face of the man before her-he saw the shape of her mouth drawn firm in self-control, yet softened by some tremulous emotion, while she answered quietly, "Thank you.† (source)
- Perhaps the most graceful way, even though it be a white lie, is for the hero to protest his tragic inability—temporary or permanent—from wounds received in the very battle that proved him a hero.† (source)
- " "Like a white lie?"† (source)
- He had not wanted to disturb his nephew—a white lie.† (source)
- Mrs. Larkin, I may have told little white lies in my life, but never a lie that mattered, that hurt any one.† (source)
- The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.† (source)
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