lies in the PONS Dictionary

lies Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to see how the land lies
videti kako stoje stvari
to tell thumping lies
izreći krupne laži
I don't know what lies ahead of me
ne znam šta me čeka u budućnosti
to tell lies
pričati laži
the river lies 40 km to the south of us
reka se nalazi 40 km južno od nas
it lies heavily on her mind
to je mnogo muči
the choice/decision lies [only] with you
izbor/odluka je (samo) na tebi
pedlar of lies
lažov
the fault lies with sb/sth
krivica pada na nekoga/nešto
Canberra lies to the south of Sydney
Kanbera je južnije od Sidneja

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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This bareness hardly prepares us for the vibrant, colourful view that lies in the distance.
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The term connotes that the work is unattractive or inappropriate to its surroundings - that is, it has been thoughtlessly plopped where it lies.
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It intertwines the female singer's lamentation of the end of love and the lies she has to hear, while the male actor simply speaks.
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The village lies on the gault clay, where springs well up just south of a gentle gravelly ridge.
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At low tide the sandbar lies exposed and bathers may walk out into the water for quite some distance before reaching waist-deep water.
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His default expression lies somewhere between hangdog and puzzled.
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The essence of the effect of bifurcation memory (BM) lies in the appearance of a special type of transition process.
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L2 Puppis is a dying star that once resembled our sun and it is showing us the stellar inferno that lies in store for our planet.
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People tend to take her side, even through her lies, in large part because of how she conducts herself in confrontational situations.
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The society aimed to aid and assist in this righteous cause as far as lies within our power...
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