Sentence examples for lay something else from inspiring English sources

On the shelf where I found it lay something else: a package of slippery green paper, neatly tied.

He is also a supple reader of the world; emerging from incarceration, he had the feeling "that behind everything lay something else, a hidden motive perhaps, or something unimaginable and dark, that a person was merely a disguise for another person, that something said was merely a code for something else".

If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else – Picture me Gone I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the world.

While we need law enforcement and the military -- when they are well trained and when they execute their jobs -- true safety, of the sort that prevails in the best of our cities and neighborhoods, lies in something else.

FICTION FRICTION Vice, I was a little worried when I saw you'd done a Fiction Issue that wasn't just articles on writing or making up lies or something else, but an actual collection of new fiction.

Pitchfork Media said that while Acid Tongue is "immediately pleasurable," the album's downfall is that "Lewis does such a good job of nailing choice sounds and styles from pop's past that you can't help getting reeled in right away; only upon later reflection do you realize that much of her success lies in evoking something else great rather than achieving a greatness more uniquely her own".

Wallace immediately throws a previous vow to never filibuster a SCOTUS nominee in his face and asks, "What changed?" If Alexander were being honest, he'd say, "Well, now I'm in the minority, and so I have a tradition of acting like a baby to uphold," but he lies and says something else instead, that doesn't make any sense.

Don't tell the truth or lie; bring up something else, so people will wonder what happened.

But something else lay at the heart of his decision.

But when Mr. Cogito returned: his friend was no longer there something else lay in his place with a twisted head and goggled eyes.

In one area, pieces of elaborate liter-sized cups hinted that something else lay beneath.