Sentence examples for lay as a from inspiring English sources

The success of "Jumping Frog" finally convinced Twain that his future lay as a writer.

Beyond it, some sheltered beech trees retained a pale selection of leaves from the past summer, while the bulk of fallen material lay as a damp, fermenting mulch on the soil below.

In 1944 Brubeck led an army service band in Europe, where he was able to study under Arnold Schoenberg, and after his discharge in 1946 continued with Milhaud – who was later to insist, hearing him in concert playing original themes, that his future lay as a composer.

A wilful child, he excelled in art, and pursued his initial ambition until his Sex Pistols epiphany revealed to him that his future lay as a strutting singer with a penchant for costumes that culminated in him dressing like a highwayman, replete with white stripe daubed across the bridge of his nose.

Thirty tons of black, fungal-fragrant manure to lay as a blanket over the soil, every bit shovelled into a barrow, wheeled to the relevant spot in the garden and then spread, mostly shovel by shovel so as not to damage the emerging plants.

He was thinking of young Tamila and Malika, her aunt, when he said: "We spend all our lives at this hospital and we see all the troubles that lay as a burden on our patients, so it gives us a heartache.

The room I was about to move my 93-year-old mother into lay as bare as a newborn.

(He describes one savagely mutilated murder victim as lying "as still as a deep-­forest kill").

"It lies as grimly as a public school in England between childhood and manhood.

He spouts lies as easily as a baby cries when it is hungry.

I was lying "as still as possible" on a table, naked from the waist up.