Sentence examples for lay rigid from inspiring English sources
It lay rigid, like a toppled sculpture.
Gagarin lay rigid in his seat and tensed his muscles.
His arms, which were usually ottery when he spoke, lay rigid on the table.
I lay rigid, watching the knob turn for several minutes, until it stopped.
I do remember the night before, lying rigid on my bed in a cold puddle of sweat.
Pictures are scraped back (Monet reported) to look as if done at the first attempt, or heaped with little still lifes – lemon peel unspooling, a sword lying rigid on the floor.
The timing device of a second world war Japanese torpedo, a map of Iwojima and a macabre US military "Jap Hunting License ('Open Season – No Limit')" occupy the same display, while round the corner another strange gas-masked figure lies rigid on a stretcher.
Offred, played by Elisabeth Moss, is a handmaid in Gilead, the brutally repressive patriarchy that has subsumed the place formerly known as the United States, and a handmaid's job is to reproduce; she is "a womb on two legs," solemnly raped once a month by her Commander, Fred Joseph Fienness), as she lies rigid in the lap of his "barren" wife.
Which made Pamela roll over to her side of the bed, where she lay with rigid limbs and a set jaw.
The French state has a long history of trying to lay down rigid rules for names – both surnames and first names.
"When I did my report into the riots, I deliberately did not lay down rigid programmes, I gave what I called signposts, directions in which to go, because I thought there was then a real possibility for those who really knew what it was about to take things forward.
