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Discover Ludwig"lay sleeping" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a construction often used in storytelling or narration to describe someone who is sleeping in a horizontal position. Example: The old man lay sleeping on the park bench, his wrinkled face peaceful and relaxed.
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"You merely recall things to them that lay sleeping just below the level of consciousness".
She stood up from the stool and walked over to where the cat lay sleeping.
Perhaps someone had whispered it in his ear while he lay sleeping?
He walked downstairs, where his father lay sleeping on the couch, and shot Mr. Hall in the head.
As the older children flinched at every shell, the baby, Fairouz, lay sleeping in a turquoise blanket.
In the nineteen-seventies, researchers discovered that leukemic cells lay sleeping in the central nervous system, and developed targeted treatments that could eliminate them.
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She lends a gaunt presence as her children lie sleeping.
In the first bed a young pregnant woman, her cheeks aflame, lies sleeping.
The teenage Mary Shelley lies sleeping, and in her dreaming mind, a monster jolts to life, electrified.
One night, as Father lies sleeping beside his liquor bottles, Dave stabs him to death.
"At midday, they then lie sleeping behind a shop counter or on a stairway.
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