Example Sentences

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It's much like that adage often misattributed to Mark Twain: "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots."

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2022

“A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.”

From Fox News • Apr. 18, 2020

We've all heard the trope before: "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots."

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2020

Today, Ribéry is lacing up his boots for France again.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2012

The other leg, similarly contorted, is on the lap of Ellen the cook, who with very violent tugs, as if she were lashing a box, is lacing a boot on to it.

From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)