How to Use liar in a Sentence

liar

noun
  • She called him a dirty liar.
  • Democrats are the chief liars, Trump is the truth teller.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
  • And so at the end of the day, he was shown as a liar to his own people.
    — CBS News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • In the halls, people yelled cuss words at me and called me a liar.
    — Seventeen Magazine, Seventeen, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The one who called you a liar, the one who said your wife was ugly!
    — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • He was called a virus-spreader, a job-killer, a liar and a sleaze.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Israel sought to paint Tony as a liar with a sketchy past.
    — Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • People have called them liars again and again and again.
    — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 1 May 2018
  • People have called the masseuse a liar, a tool of the government.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2021
  • She’s been called a snitch, a liar and been told by her peers to kill herself.
    — OregonLive.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • God must guide the hand of the just, so whoever loses is the liar.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Oct. 2021
  • At every turn, the voices call her a liar and out of her mind.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Will those people brand him a liar and turn out next year to dump him?
    — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 9 May 2017
  • The snake, being a liar, says the opposite of what is true.
    — A.n. Wilson, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Trump calls Wolff a liar, Wolff calls Trump unfit to serve.
    — Philip H. Devoe, National Review, 20 Jan. 2018
  • For her part, Heather is pissed that Whitney called her a liar.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Only a liar would deny it, but then the job just had to be done.
    — David Martin, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The e-mail story was defined by a hacker and a liar, and the press played along.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In his first book, Franken ran all these lying liars to ground and left them there.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 7 Dec. 2017
  • All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.
    — Katie Zezima, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
  • When the president turned out to be a liar – like Richard Nixon – he was gone.
    — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2022
  • There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love all things Disney and liars.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 Apr. 2019
  • The people in power try to dismiss the free press as fake or as liars.
    — azcentral, 1 June 2018
  • Lying tends to be rare, except in the case of a small group of frequent liars.
    — Christian B. Miller, CNN, 25 June 2024
  • Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • So much of the spine of the show is based around the idea of salesmen as liars and salesmen as storytellers.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Eliminations are made based on who knows the least about the liar in their midst.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • Anyone saying it’s being done for our health is either a liar or an idiot.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But her choice ultimately comes down to a question of authenticity; the rich author is a liar and a fake, while the pickle man is the salt of the earth.
    — Jason Bailey, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025

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