Sentence examples for lay history from inspiring English sources

The Ordnance Survey maps, even the big ones, lay history before our eyes.

Their talking heads also display less smugness and more lapel-grasping passion; this is just how lay history should be.

Had he just continued lying, history says that he still would have been able to convince many people, perhaps even the majority, that he was telling the truth.

Going back through my notes as the Sihanouk obituaries hit the wires last night, I came across this undated remark of the dead king's, which I had flagged and highlighted, but which didn't make it into my piece: "Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them".

In the background lay a history and an arriviste but ebullient culture that habitually encouraged the casting aside of one persona and the dedicated embrace of another.

So, the world is today full of people inventing histories and lying about history and that's largely because the people who do this are not actually interested in the past.

In our height lies our history.

The practice's roots lie in history.

The answer lies in history.

Inside, under baroque sweetness lies a history of naked power.

But he wasn't lying, and history has already proved him right.