4 Sentences With "gave lie to"

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But "documentary" evidence, Manfred said, gave lie to his protestations. from The New York Times
Although Nat Turner's uprising failed, it gave lie to the myth promoted by slave owners that slaves were happy with their lot. from New Republic
His loving portrayal of his parents, most notably in his memoir Patrimony (1991), gave lie to the canard that he was a disloyal son of the Jewish people or a narcissist who cared only for himself. from New Republic
Indeed, in a related effort, the United States Holocaust Museum teamed with Google Earth to establish baseline GIS photos of crisis-torn Darfur, updating them at intervals, and uploading them to the Internet for public access. Since Internet "surfers" can browse these images and see where once-present villages are later obliterated, this teamwork gave lie to the Sudanese claim that it was engaging in neither ethnic cleansing nor genocide.