Sentence examples for lay long from inspiring English sources
This is another issue that lay long and fruitlessly in American hands.
A few Kazakh houses lay long and low against the wind, with whitewashed walls, tile roofs and mastiffs prowling out front.
The pool lay long and slim before me, all calm colours and sharp angles, like a Hockney painting, and I dived in for an early-morning, jetlagged swim.
Fast-flying, highly streamlined birds such as swifts and hummingbirds tend to lay long, elliptical eggs, while those of auks, guillemots, and shorebirds are more pointed at the narrow end.
And so began his quest to uncover the life of one of the world's most mysterious artists, with Mr. Montias unearthing and poring over 454 documents related to Vermeer and his family that lay, long undisturbed, in the archives of no fewer than 17 Dutch and Belgian cities.
About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones, white and blue, now folded for sleep; and there were acres populous with the leaves of woodland hyacinths: already their sleek bell-stems were thrusting through the mould".
"Winter lies long in country towns," she writes.
Lie long enough and well enough and your dream becomes reality.
Before us lie long months of effort and of challenge, and we understand that.
Bigoted and xenophobic lies long predated the EU referendum, of course, but the leave campaigns gave them renewed legitimacy, leaving many migrants feeling insecure, anxious – and abandoned, even.
This is in addition to 750,000 houses lying long-term empty, thanks to the chronic inadequacy of property taxation.
