Sentence examples for lay a mass from inspiring English sources

About her feet lay a mass of the most beautiful toys in the world, most of them slightly battered, as if they had been flung there from a distance.

"We formed ourselves around the primary facts of the split," she explains, adding that within each girl lay "a mass of fantasy, jealousy and longing that was crucial and would define us".

In between the two broken sections lay a large mass of Taconite pellets and scattered wreckage laying about, including hatch covers and hull plating.

Somewhere to leeward lay a large mass of ice, concealed in the darkness and fog.

Breeding occurs in late winter; females lay a single egg mass per year (Barbieri and Mazzotti 2006), therefore the number of clutches represents both annual population reproductive output and the number of breeding females in a population.

Her body lies in a mass grave for unclaimed bodies, a place where her sons cannot visit.

But the Iraqi people were left for dead, whether they were walking on this earth or lying in a mass grave".

Norway lay behind us, a mass of peaks and troughs.

Within these impacted word-masses lies a celebration as well as a jeremiad.

"Suppose the Gentleman B.," one character observes, "is not a simple terrorist but an angel, in the early sense of 'messenger,' and in the fateful cloud he brings, despite the insupportable smell, the corrosive suffocation, lies a message?" By this logic, mass death could be one of the agents that increasingly seek to communicate with the world, like an insistently ringing hotline.

It is at Shiloh that my great-great-grandfather, James Wilburn, lies buried in a mass grave among other Confederate soldiers during that terribly deadly siege on the war's western front.