Sentence examples for laid wide from inspiring English sources

Hints toward the latter include the remarkably grisly "Anatomical Venus" — an anonymous Italian creation, from 1780-85, of a lovely damsel laid wide open from throat to crotch — and the " 'Auto-Icon' of Jeremy Bentham" (1832).

Now Brotherhood lays wide the great metropolis of Western antiquity.

It's an old trick, and I've laid myself wide open.

We took the floor level down to install a damp course and then laid the wide elm boards, found in a reclamation yard in Bath.

But the music on "Vagarosa," full of spaced-apart dub grooves and small gestures with deep echoes, lays wide open, and Céu's band did it justice onstage.

The railings were of exotic purpleheart, the panelling of angelique, the floorboards of American pine, laid on wide-set joists to give them more spring and make them easy on the feet.

The very extravagance of its imaginings lays it wide open, to the crowing delight of a movie such as "Paul".

The big problem with James's argument, of course, is that it lays him wide open to the charge of curmudgeonliness.

71 min Mata rolls his studs over the ball, a rare moment of Chelsea confidence, and lays it wide to Bosingwa.

It had been another sleepless night, tossing and turning, trying to get comfortable, laying there wide awake yet so completely exhausted and thinking about why it had to be me.

Pens, staplers and telephones are neatly laid on the wide desk before him, but his computer is blank.