Sentence examples of "mentir" in French

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Bon sang ne saurait mentir Good blood would not know how to lie

Il a continué à mentir. He kept on telling lies.

Je ne veux plus mentir. I don't want to lie anymore.

Je ne puis vous mentir. I can't lie to you.

C'est mal de mentir. It is wrong to tell lies.

Nous le suspectâmes de mentir. We suspected him of lying.

Elle a pu me mentir. She may have told me a lie.

Il me soupçonne de mentir. He suspects me of telling a lie.

Tu es en train de mentir. You are lying.

Nous l'avons suspecté de mentir. We suspected him of lying.

J'ai été contraint de mentir. I was constrained to tell a lie.

Vous êtes en train de mentir. You are lying.

Pour me défendre, j'ai dû mentir. To defend myself, I had to tell a lie.

Ce n'est pas bien de mentir. It is not good to tell a lie.

Je ne l'ai jamais entendu mentir. I have never heard him lie.

Tom est trop honnête garçon pour mentir. Tom is too honest a boy to tell a lie.

Il a promis de ne plus jamais mentir. He promised not to tell another lie.

Je pense que c'est mal de mentir. I think it's wrong to tell a lie.

On devrait laisser les chiens qui dorment mentir. We should let sleeping dogs lie.

N'as-tu pas promis de ne jamais mentir ? Didn't you promise never to tell a lie?

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