Sentence examples for lay a body from inspiring English sources

Behind her, on a ladder, lay a body in a blanket.

I found myself standing next to a table on which lay a body that had just been cut open down the middle.

If a question was asked, I would lay a body block on the situation, making clear that I wouldn't allow Fairey to answer.

Close to the Sussex village of Fernhurst lies a body of brackish water which attests to the ravages of industrialisation.

LEONIA, N.J. — Near the junction of the New Jersey Turnpike and Interstate 80, not far from the conga line of traffic grinding toward New York City, lies a body of water that was once a garbage dump.

Off-putting terms, but behind them lies a body of thought that ought to be interesting to anyone fearful of having to park cars or flip burgers at age 87.

Yet behind the confident public pronouncements about the value of torture lay a significant body of evidence casting doubt on it.

And throughout the Civil War, Union soldiers sang, "John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on".

The soldiers boarded a bus bound for the morgue, where Sergeant Sebban lay in a body bag.

They offer brutally practical advice: anyone planning to lay out a body for a wake at home in the traditional way, in a centrally heated modern house, is advised to stock up on ice packs well in advance.

Or of the person who lay there, a body without a mind, who's very being was in the hands of others.