Sentence examples for lain for from inspiring English sources

Here it had lain for five hundred years.

That suddenly upset the diplomatic limbo in which the territorial dispute had lain for years.

I stood before the vault where Raphael has lain for over four hundred and fifty years..

For two days before Monday's funeral, Frazier's coffin had lain for viewing at Wells Fargo Center, the basketball and hockey arena in south Philadelphia.

Pondicherry's charm has always lain for me in its isolation -- its seclusion, its distance from the world, and the sense of perspective (and safety) afforded by that distance.

When they arrived, they discovered that Muhannad's body had lain for two weeks at the side of the road, a few hundred yards out of town.

Everyone lies, for different reasons.

But should you lie for the employee?

They lie for a living".

Sometimes we lie for self-advancement.

"Leave it lay for the birdies".