Sentence examples for ground lay from inspiring English sources
On the ground lay the corpses and the wounded.
Although you knew how the ground lay, you also knew that Margaret liked a good argument.
Everywhere, littering the ground, lay bits of festive-looking silver cardboard: discarded ammunition boxes for Beretta pistols.
The great BBC correspondent Richard Dimbleby, who was with the liberating troops, famously reported on radio: "Here over an acre of ground lay dead and dying people.
Silphids, which dig under small dead animals so that they settle into the ground, lay their eggs on the carrion, on which the larvae feed.
On the ground lay the bricks to a building built in 1903, but not considered by state officials to be worthy of preservation.
And on that ground lies a bath.
On hillier ground lie orchards for apples and pears.
She pushed Orel to the ground, lying protectively on him.
"I found him on the ground, lying," his father said outside the family's home.
Farai is again on dry ground, lying on his back, seemingly near death but still breathing.
