Sentence examples for lay for a few from inspiring English sources

I came in the middle of the night, it woke me up and I lay for a few seconds in the darkness wondering whether to get up and put on clean underpants, but fell asleep immediately afterward.

Then, first one, and then the other, squeezes through a hoop until both are lying for a few seconds peacefully atop each other, their eyes tightly closed.

My father and I would work in the bazaar all day and then walk home, climb over a sand dune, where I would just lie for a few minutes and stargaze, before heading to eat and sleep".

But I dug the baton out from the back of the cupboard, where it has lain for a few years, and gave it to Dan this week after his miraculous recovery.

Instead I just took a valium and lay down for a few hours.

He lay there for a few minutes before limping to the dugout in obvious discomfort with Monahan's help.

Crooks needing "a place to lay low for a few hours," Jack advises, are better off with a self-storage unit, than a motel.

He lay low for a few years, turning his back on his radical past and trying to establish a secure home with his daughter.

He lay motionless for a few moments in the hushed arena, leaving many viewers and his fellow skateboarders wondering if he was still alive.

"I told him, 'Look, why don't you sell off some of your collection, stop buying, and you can lay low for a few years?' and he said that was a good idea," Edelman recalled.

I quite enjoyed Sanders' response to Beardy's "Småland is lovely this season", alluding to his plan to lay low for a few weeks: "Stop talking like a haiku poem.