swear falsely

Example Sentences

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“If you swear falsely to Congress, just like if you swear falsely to a court or in an affidavit, that’s a crime. It’s a felony and it can carry heavy consequences,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2019

Within a month he had persuaded two prominent members of the influential local German community to swear, falsely, that he had resided in the country for five years and to sponsor him for citizenship.

From Time Magazine Archive

No; well, mark me, he has brought some people with him to swear falsely, and to clear him of all part in running off with Col.

From A Heart-Song of To-day by Savigny, Annie Gregg

Dreadful are the denunciations uttered against such as swear falsely.

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John

In short, Sire, most people swear falsely; and those who do not, hide themselves, or retire in order not to testify.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen