How to Use belie in a Sentence

belie

verb

• Their actions belie their claim to be innocent.
• The city’s suburbs have a peaceful veneer that belies the tensions on the ground.
  — Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
• Musk apologized for this tweet a few days later, but his actions in the following weeks belied his apology.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2018
• But the game’s long retreat from that initial burst belies its continued, unprecedented success.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 6 July 2018
• His outfit belies a background in aerospace engineering.
  — Zack Colman, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
• To wit: One of the menu’s most popular items is Crispy Pig Face, whose pithy name belies its long prep time of smoking pork heads and shoulders.
  — Michael Meyer, New York Times, 7 July 2018
• But the widespread uptake of this technology belies underlying structural problems, not least the issue of bias.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 26 July 2018
• Economists like to say that expansions don’t die of old age—a notion that belies the fact that all previous expansions, save one, have indeed died before reaching the age of this one.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 9 July 2018
• His cross-eyes and panting-dog demeanor belie a natural genius, which is the player's talent at jumping on enemies and spinning into them like a dervish to vanquish them.
  — Harold Goldberg, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• His irreverent sense of humor — delivered amid expletives and with a childlike grin that belies his 61 years — seems to have carried him through the relentless five years of work.
  — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
• Like Alessandro di Prisco’s bulbous concrete chairs, 7.5’s benches have a softness that belies the material’s hard touch.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 29 Aug. 2018
• The bold colors and vibrant illustrations, however, belie a game of real depth and complexity—perhaps a bit too much complexity for some.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
• But Libra’s rep for harmonious ballroom interludes belies the hard work of reality checking our concepts of justice and alignment.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 13 July 2018
• Tatis ran the bases with a speed that belied his 6-foot-3 frame.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The idea that these were stolen to order belies the facts.
  — Swapna Krishna, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2017
• But the moves of the workout itself belie this prim ethos.
  — Danielle Friedman, The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
• But under the hood, there’s a rich set of metrics, some of which belie the price point.
  — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2020
• But the very structure of the law belied the state’s argument.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Johnson tends to play the game with a chip on his shoulder that belies his young age.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• But the essence of Biden’s argument is belied by the public record.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2019
• But the women's team's results on the field seem to belie Lloyd's post-2015 critique.
  — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
• The stellar play and the confidence to go with it belie Young's tender age.
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 29 May 2021
• At this point, all teams have played between 43 and 49 games, but the numbers belie the tumult.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
• Irwin’s words belie the claim that Americans didn’t know about the Nazi war against the Jews.
  — Gil Troy, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• Perfect lead blocking helped — but so does speed that belies just how big the 250-pound back is.
  — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024
• Yet the mood belied no indication that the club was about to go under.
  — Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 14 May 2018
• This is a corrupt prosecution that belies any sense of the facts or the law.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
• But do their actions in the White House and on Capitol Hill confirm or belie it?
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 19 Oct. 2021
• The nature of the shale boom is such that proved reserves belie the size of the ultimate resource base.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• But all of the freaks’ requests that Lindsay stay with Nick belie that denial, don’t they?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2025