LAY in a Sentence
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349 example sentences for LAY, such as:
1. He loosened tie and lay in bed.
2. We lay huddled together for warmth.
3. Hours of feverish activity lay ahead.
4. She lay in bed, too feverish to sleep.
5. She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
2. We lay huddled together for warmth.
3. Hours of feverish activity lay ahead.
4. She lay in bed, too feverish to sleep.
5. She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
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Meanings and Examples of LAY
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lay
n. a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
n. a narrative poem of popular origin
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners.
2 The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light.
3 He turned and looked at her where she lay indistinctly outlined under the dark calico quilt, her high-boned face taking a grayish tinge from the whiteness of the pillow.
4 As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door.
5 A bright fire glowed in the stove and the cat lay stretched before it, watching the table with a drowsy eye.
6 It seemed to him as if the shattered fragments of their evening lay there.
7 The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes.
8 She sat silent, her hands clasped on her work, and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of stuff that still lay unrolled between them.
9 I guess I'll lay down on the bed a little while, she answered mildly; and he turned and walked out of the room.
10 He bundled himself into his old coon-skin coat and lay down on the box-sofa to think.
11 As he lay there, the window-pane that faced him, growing gradually lighter, inlaid upon the darkness a square of moon-suffused sky.
12 When warmth began to radiate from the stove, and the first ray of sunlight lay on the kitchen floor, Ethan's dark thoughts melted in the mellower air.
13 The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun.
14 When he entered the kitchen it was empty, but Mattie's bag and shawl lay ready by the door.
15 They had reached the top of School House Hill and Starkfield lay below them in the twilight.
Example Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1 Stars twinkled above them as they lay on the hill.
2 Hours of feverish activity lay ahead.
3 Ahead of us lay ten days of intensive training.
4 The doctor was able to treat the disease although he could not lay his finger on the exact cause.
5 The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
6 She lay curled up in the crook of his arm.
7 I lay on my back and looked up at the stars.
8 Two basic assumptions lay behind the policy.
9 Simon lay in bed thinking about the meeting next day.
10 She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
11 She lay in bed, too feverish to sleep.
12 He loosened tie and lay in bed.
13 We lay huddled together for warmth.
14 The town lay in ruins after years of bombing.
15 The letter lay unopened in the travel firm's pigeonhole.