Sentence examples for dirt lay from inspiring English sources

In the dirt lay a pink-and-black chunk of its marbled facade.

It wasn't obvious from the floor just how much grease and dirt lay on the bones' upper sides.

Flowers, roots, and dirt lay upended in the back garden where lilies begin their daily excursions above stonewalls in the season of old roses.

Like once, in the street of a vacant neighborhood in Kunduz, he saw a mound in the earth where the dirt lay neatly disarranged, and he got on his knees and blew on it, and he saw the pressure plate, and he stood up fast.

The writing recalls the sticky intensity of Keith Douglas in the Egyptian desert: The flies landed on you and you waved them off, they curved around your hand like water and landed again to sip at tear fluid and saliva, to eat the dead skin, dirt, lay their eggs in the nutritious wetness of wounds.

The contaminated dirt lies in bags on roadsides, in abandoned fields and on the coastline, where experts say they are at risk from high waves or another tsunami.

Another, in ragged clothes with his skin stained dark by the sun and dirt, lies motionless on the concrete strip surrounding the small church of Santo Domingo.

"You tryin' to get through all these layers 'f tissue an' organs 'n' stuff to get to where the real dirt lies?" Finally, in a moment that plays only partly as a joke, Lemming lunges at Mungitt and mortifies him with a kiss.

After an hour of toe touches, deep knee bends and push-ups, the volunteers sat cross-legged in the dirt and lay down their long bamboo staffs to listen raptly to their leader, K. S. Sudarshan.

After the documentary was released this month, Mr. Udaltsov immediately denounced it in a Twitter post as "dirt and lies," calling it a "provocation whose ultimate objective is to justify my arrest".

MAKAMBA, Burundi, 27 February 2015 – Deep within the province of Makamba in Burundi, at the end of a long, red dirt track, lies a modest palm plantation.