Sentence examples for lay perfectly from inspiring English sources

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He lay perfectly still until the 20 Islamic extremists left, and he appears to be the only survivor of those who had been selected for death.

If he lay perfectly still, he felt no pain, but the moment he shifted his weight his muscles seized up again.

Besides a tiny squat lobster carefully picking its way across piles of coins the scene lay perfectly still .You can hardly blame the Central America's original insurers for wanting a share of the spoils.

He lay perfectly still in his natty black suit, staring straight ahead so that, should you choose to look down as you walked over him, you would make eye contact, unsettlingly, just before you stepped over or onto his face.

This film is a sweet kiss blown to a time long since over, a time that may have existed only in the movies, with ballads recorded in mono while hand-sewn clothing lay perfectly over the bodies of the stars.

("He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare... A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal").

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He tried to lie perfectly still.

When you unzip it, all the fabric lies perfectly flat.

The lines lie perfectly flush, but the look won't please everyone.

"But there are lots of people out there who find the idea that a company is completely lying perfectly plausible".

"He was lying perfectly quiet in the center of his stall, but he couldn't get up," Ms. Francis said.

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