Sentence examples for everything lay from inspiring English sources

Everything lay at his feet.

"Practically everything lay outside my experience," he says, doing a fine impression of one of his own characters.

If everything lay well (for example, East had king-doubleton in both hearts and clubs), declarer was going to take a lot of tricks.

At the camp of a platoon of Nepalese United Nations soldiers near the Croatian town of Nova Gradiska, everything lay in ruins this week.

He is also a supple reader of the world; emerging from incarceration, he had the feeling "that behind everything lay something else, a hidden motive perhaps, or something unimaginable and dark, that a person was merely a disguise for another person, that something said was merely a code for something else".

I went down in the elevator, not having checked the time, past the night porter, who was sleeping uncomfortably, his head on the counter, like a future decapitee; I had left my watch upstairs, and everything lay in silence, apart from the slight noise made by my black moccasins.

"The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple".

Somewhere there in the accumulation of small detail, one realizes, nothing is where everything lies.

They've never had horrid bloating and dragging tummy aches, bloody knickers, sheets and even mattresses, spent hours washing everything, lying bleeding and clutching hot-water bottles.

At the moment Toulon's where everything lies".

So little has been done that everything lies in the domain of the possible future.