Sentence examples for lay lightly from inspiring English sources
Renown lay lightly on his shoulders.
Her hand lay lightly on Lisette's arm, which had the effect of restraining Lisette from swiping and poking at her left eye, as she'd been doing.
May the earth lie lightly upon him.
The weight of history lies lightly on the smallest shoulders.
"We like to lie lightly on the land".
In still another family larvae lie lightly covered in the soil.
Yet these things lie lightly over the film – nothing is hammered home, or pointed up.
Fame, or perhaps infamy, lies lightly on the staff of Lovehoney.
Seven hundred years of shards and fragments lie lightly buried under the broken streets, beneath some 1,500 architectural treasures.
The game's problems, which he is trying to solve, do not lie lightly on his shoulders.
His concluding sentence: "I say it as calmly as I can — the church should have had the elementary decency to let the earth lie lightly on this troubled and miserable lady, and not to invoke her long anguish to recruit the credulous to a blind faith in which she herself had long ceased to believe".
