Sentence examples for a greater lay from inspiring English sources

Its members -- many of them older devout Catholics who serve as eucharistic ministers or Sunday school teachers -- have tried to call for a greater lay voice in the church without alienating the church's hierarchy.

By the time I was 17, I'd decided I wanted to be a great lay.

At the same time, there was an increasing, sometimes obsessive interest in sex, though he was usually funny about it: in "Madder Music," after many episodes of athletic adultery, his unfaithful narrator confesses, "She's a great lay, but she needs an editor".

In experiment I cows in the strawyard system had a significantly greater lying time, ruminating time and synchronisation of lying behaviour than the cubicle system.

This was a great lie, of course.

I think that's a great lie, a horrible lie.

It was like they were living a great lie, and I had to find them out".

He did this by heeding Adolf Hitler's assertion - increasingly the love-child of governments - that the great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a great lie than to a small one.

Things are said that are redundant -- 'Here I am holding a spoon' -- or sappy and cloying -- 'On this spot the great Houdini died.' So in college I plotted magic where the audience would not be confronted by a great lie to their faces.

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He gained five strokes in his final six holes, highlighted by holing a 15-yard bunker shot for birdie at 16. "I had a great lie in the flat part of the trap," Rose said.