Sentence examples for lay steadily from inspiring English sources

All you'd need is a narrator intoning, "Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Xanadu, and whatever walked there … walked alone," and bingo!

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood ands tone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone".

During her lifetime in the vanguard of dance-theater, Ms. Halprin has inverted Martha Graham's dictum that movement never lies, steadily insisting that lies never make movement.

On the other hand, the value of α∗ lies steadily between 0.3 and 0.5, suggesting that the adjustment to the number of bootstraps can mostly be made through the choice of L. Furthermore, we unsurprisingly observe that increasing the number R of resampling runs leads to better performances.

As she lay there, breathing steadily and peacefully, I reflected on our life together as we approach another anniversary later this week.

Before a hushed crowd of hundreds of thousands in St. Peter's Square, Pope John Paul II today made a saint of the founder of Opus Dei, a deeply conservative Roman Catholic lay group that has grown steadily in influence and stirred considerable controversy over recent years.

His mind and memory had been failing steadily and now he lay on a cot in the room adjoining his workroom, dozing.

Members had been meeting steadily since early January to lay the groundwork for the meeting today, the first formal session of the organization's governing body, called the General Council.

Multinational employers steadily move work offshore, and lay off thousands of workers.

(The practice lay dormant for a while, but has been steadily coming back across the industry).

The rules on burials and lay access to churches appear to have been steadily circumvented, at least unofficially.