Sentence examples for lay herself from inspiring English sources

(We hear her do Bryn Mawr shades of Spanish and German and Russian, but Mayer vetoed Yiddish; the virgin goddess might lay herself down, but the Connecticut shiksa remained inviolate).

I must either vaguely agree with what she says, hoping she isn't somehow putting me on or lying herself, or else confess everything, with some version of the conversation killer: "I read that entire novel and now can tell you nothing of any consequence about it".

How dare she whip up hatred based on unfounded lies when she tells so many lies herself?

She put the children in their bedrolls on the floor, lay down herself at three o'clock, and fell asleep at once, so soundly that when planes passed over later, she did not waken to their sound.

I was back then in the simple world before I had seen Frances Carey, a world in which someone whose heartbeat had once been mine, and whose blood became my blood, and inside whose body I once lay curled, herself lay stricken in a hospital bed.

But her emotional condition was fragile, and Bryher -- who was obsessed with psychoanalysis, and indeed became something of a lay analyst herself -- was determined that she should be treated by Freud.

We know she's lying to herself.

I believe she was lying to herself.

But in "Life So Far," Betty Friedan's lies to herself remain unnamed and fearsome.

She denies it, but, from Johnson on, the critical consensus has mostly held that she is lying to herself.

You can say that Tammi is lying to herself, or that  we're a little crazy on the subject of Santa Claus.