Sentence examples for lay for hours from inspiring English sources

There I lay for hours at a time, reading.

I took walks alone through the surrounding páramo, the bushy, blond grassland carpeting the volcano's flanks, past grazing alpacas, and lay for hours on my back.

On Thursday, a settlers' hike provoked a gun battle, during which wounded settlers lay for hours on a steep hillside waiting to be evacuated.

So might the spiritual content of the deeply serious "Levitation," a 1970 performance by Terry Fox (1943-2008), in which the artist, who had Hodgkin's disease, lay for hours on a mound of earth trying to will himself into an out-of-body state.

He grew up in Ferguson, Missouri, and that fact alone gives him a voice on racial matters for it was his town, his neighborhood, his very street where Michael Brown was shot and his body lay for hours baking in the summer sun.

We'd lie for hours on a rug on her studio floor, fucking and listening to music.

No political ideology guided him, though he might lie for hours at night thinking, or read for most of the day.

Occasionally, he'd forget to remove his nicotine patch before bed and would lie for hours suffering a train of nightmares.

Their 7-day-old baby boy, who was born slightly underweight and suffering from infection, had just died, after lying for hours on a cold cot.

Even orphan life has a tint of the fable: lying for hours in the meadow and stealing peaches from the kitchen; and the army's march comes across as a pleasant stroll.

Skelton's accounts of life at Oak Cottage, meanwhile, contain epic descriptions of her slothful and self-pitying husband lying for hours in the bath murmuring the words "Poor Cyril" to himself or telling her that he wishes she were dead.