belying

Example Sentences

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Degas depicted them stretching at the bar, retying their slippers or perched atop a grand piano while stretching and scratching their backs.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2019

It’s lost length in the tying and retying and is now too short to be tied to the shoes, but I will bring it with me to Rio.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2016

As she squats alone on the floor of her one-room hut, untwisting and retying a torn fishing net, it becomes clear that Rosa Nobert, 43, shares her days with the dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

“A schoolteacher? Is that what you want to do?” he said, retying my bow.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

I kept shifting in my seat, untying and retying my shoelaces.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini