LIAR in a Sentence

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35 example sentences for LIAR, such as:

1. A liar is worse than a thief.
2. A great talker is a great liar.
3. Don't you believe the old liar.
4. What a fearful liar you are, Jack.
5. A vaunter and a liar are near akin.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
liar
 n.  a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Why, you liar, I saw you with my own eyes sidle round the corner of the porch and squat in the cape jessamine bush by the wall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  "I think you are a liar," said Melanie with a faint smile and the first sign of spirit Scarlett had ever seen her display with a man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  A Southern lady could lie about a gentleman but a Southern gentleman could not lie about a lady or, worse still, call the lady a liar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  One poor white who operated a mill on the Decatur road did try to fight Scarlett with her own weapons, saying openly that she was a liar and a swindler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  "You're a mighty sweet old liar," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
7  She lowed that a liar allus kept on lyin and a thief kept on stealin but folks don't do more'n one murder in a lifetime.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  In her room she marveled, "I have become a liar."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  My brother has been called a liar," he said, "and his friends are angry.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
10  What a fearful liar you are, Jack.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
11  As for her, she's a liar; and her fine airs are a cheat; and I'm worth six of her.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  Don't you believe the old liar.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
13  The mass of filth has this in its favor, that it is not a liar.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
14  You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for your wife is dead, you abominable liar.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
15  This woman is certainly a great liar.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
Example Sentence:
1  A vaunter and a liar are near akin.
2  The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
3  A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
4  It was a bit strong of him to call me a liar in front of the whole department.
5  A great talker is a great liar.
6  Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief.
7  Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.
8  A liar is worse than a thief.
9  She was an egregious liar; we all knew better than to believe a word she said.
10  The greatest liars talk most of themselves.