'And Maggie's family don't lie to each other all the time.'

Did the old woman's family really lie only inches below the point at which we'd stopped?

An insular small-town family lies at the heart of this generous novel.

These are family problems, men say, and the family lies beyond international jurisdiction.

His own family might even now lie dead, buried in ash.

I couldn't just leave her here: her family was lying dead all over the house.

He looked back across the street, and the family was lying there, pale and still.

It is more likely that a family will lie somewhere on the continuum between these positions in its behaviour patterns.

A single family lies at the head of the tribe.

I felt unsexed, and simultaneously enraged that this man, whose very family lied to him, should have power over them.