Sentence examples for lay close from inspiring English sources

Occasionally a calf lay close by.

In the narrow room the old man lay close to death.

It also lay close to the equator -- then, as now, reefs were most developed in low latitudes.

Its flare was mauve on a small piece of paper that lay close under his nose as he huddled there.

As he lay close to death, the nation held its breath; when he rose again, the effect was almost Christlike.

His theory of algebraic integers lay close to the theory of equations as Galois was to redefine it.

To the north-east the Khorasan Gate lay close to the Tigris, leading to the bridge of boats across it.

At the majority of grain boundaries the structure was such that one face lay close to the basal plane orientation with the other face much further away.

In these cases the EBIC was suppressed on the side of the grain boundary whose face lay close to the basal orientation.

When Mr Schäuble lay close to death in hospital in 1990, victim of a madman's gunshots, Mr Kohl was one of the first on the spot.

They lay close together but not touching, in the long grass under a tall ginkgo tree, whose leaves were shaped like exquisite tiny paddles, translucent bright grass-green.