Sentence examples for lay collapsed from inspiring English sources

Everywhere homes lay collapsed like ruined layer cakes, the fillings composed of the flotsam of daily life: blankets, cooking pots, Qu'rans, cars.

Then he got out of the car and slashed the top and back of her head as she lay collapsed on the ground.

Belgasem Al Sosi, a veterinarian now caring for the animals, said that many had died from hunger and thirst, and that "several lay collapsed in one sweltering pen, either dead and rotting or too weak to stand".

This is in contrast to wild-type females that do not lay collapsed eggs (spn-E ∆125/ Balancer), but compares favorably with eggs laid by spn-E mutant females that do not express detectable SPN-E protein, which lay between 83% and 100% collapsed eggs (114-33R918*, 9A9-18W632*, 4E2-14R695*).

Power cuts are frequent; some telephone lines simply lie collapsed on the street.

Jaha Dukureh lies collapsed across a two-seater sofa in the living room of her father's house in Serekunda, the Gambia.

I'm fairly sure that freezing to the music of The Stranglers, while a paint-smeared woman lies collapsed on the floor and a stranger kisses your toes, really wasn't what he had in mind.

Back in Eaton Park in Norwich, my heart is thudding as I lie collapsed on the grass, gazing at the clouds, moments after achieving my modest target of completing the course without stopping.

And in that time, the fraud grew and grew, as did the magnitude of losses that victims would suffer when the elaborate construction of lies collapsed.

Talks that Bishop Murphy agreed to in 2004 over the meeting ban and other concerns of the lay group collapsed after his representatives made rescinding the demand for his resignation a condition for further discussions.

TC had stumbled to the porch, collapsed and lay there for eight hours.